Pandemics and the Age of Telecommuting
The recent spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is a frightening reality not only for people living in China – where the pandemic originated – but all over the world. Pandemics are nothing new. In...
View ArticleHow the Coronavirus Will Finally Make Telecommuting Mainstream
The World Health Organization (WHO) just officially labeled COVID-19 a pandemic. And companies, schools and other organizations around the world are now urging their employees and students to work from...
View ArticleWorking from Home: Returning to Our Roots
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of employers are allowing their workers to telecommute. While it’s true that some companies have provided employees with this option for years, the...
View Article“You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”: Finding the Right Balance in...
In light of the recent coronavirus pandemic, the vast majority of companies who can allow their employees to work from home are doing so. In fact, in the midst of this pandemic, encouraging employees...
View ArticleHow to Help Your Employees Transition from Office Work to Telecommuting
Many companies are currently helping their employees to do something they never expected to do: transition from working in the office to working at home. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has made remote...
View ArticleHow to Train Your Telecommuters
Even in the best of times – when you have one or more professional trainers working full-time to train employees at your place of business, for example – training new hires can be challenging. So,...
View ArticleThe “Hands-Off” Solution to Supervising Remote Workers
As a means of dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic, many employers have started to allow their staff members to telecommute. While that may allow companies to continue to conduct business in...
View ArticleHow COVID-19 Will Reshape the Typical Workday in the Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a tremendous impact on our work lives. Even people who have continued to get up and go to work as usual – such as those with “essential” jobs like healthcare...
View ArticleEye-Opening Work-from-Home Job Statistics Every Manager Should Know
Since early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and began to have a devastating impact on the economies of the US and other countries throughout the world, work-from-home jobs became the norm....
View ArticleRemote Work Definition: It’s Not Just Working from Home
Over the past 12 months, thanks in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become increasingly common for employees throughout the US and the entire globe. Although most of us...
View ArticleMost Common Remote Jobs
Beginning in early 2020, when COVID-19 shutdowns began in earnest throughout the US, many companies started to allow their employees to work remotely. This was not necessarily a gesture of goodwill to...
View ArticleWays to Improve Work Performance of Remote Teams
Anyone who has managed or led the activities of a team in a workplace knows all too well how challenging it can be to improve the work performance of that team. Thankfully, there are some standard...
View ArticleOvercoming the Greatest Challenges of Leading a Remote Team
Even in the best of circumstances – like working with an already-established team in a traditional office environment, for example – leading a team comes with some challenges. But when your team...
View ArticleManaging Remote Employees: Writing Performance Evaluations for Remote Workers
There’s no doubt about it: COVID 19 has changed the way we live in so many ways. Not the least of those is how we work. Since the beginning of the pandemic, countless employers from all around the US...
View ArticleChoosing a Hybrid Work Model for Your Company
The COVID-19 pandemic greatly changed the way many Americans work. The exponential increase in remote work opportunities and the number of people that work from home was unlike anything most of us have...
View ArticleWhy Offering Work-from-Home Job Flexibility Should be Part of Your...
Since the global pandemic started in early 2020, millions of employees around the globe have been working from the comfort of their own homes. What once seemed to be foreign now feels completely normal...
View ArticleWhich Industries Offer the Most Fully Remote Jobs?
Remote work has taken the world by storm since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. Workers who had never before experienced fully remote jobs were expected to conform to this “new normal.” And...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why You Should Let Your Employees Work from Home
Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, when so many businesses were enabling their employees to work from home, some employers are still hesitant. Whether that’s due to concerns over employee productivity,...
View ArticleRecruiting and Hiring the Right Employees to Fill Remote Jobs
If you’re like many employers, you’ve probably already made the transition involved in allowing at least some of your employees to work from home. But making that transition, and adjusting to managing...
View ArticleHow Remote Jobs Can Save Your Company from the Great Resignation
Thanks to COVID-19 and all the repercussions of that pandemic, the workforce in the US may never be the same. One excellent example is what came to be known in 2021 as the “Great Resignation,” where...
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