Offices used to house many departments and teams, but all were visible to one another. But, with remote work, we have very little visibility into what other departments are working on. This has reached a boiling point, where remote work has led to a lack of trust and productive collaboration across disciplines and teams.
Do such headlines represent the reality of a new wave or are they just clickbait for anxious workers who want to avoid the threat of a forced office return?
This staggering statistic reveals a clear shift in workers' attitudes towards work and companies that fail to adapt to this change risk losing their most valuable asset: their employees.
Employers can successfully create a hybrid environment that benefits all employees by focusing on collaboration, flexibility, and a shared understanding of what hybrid means for the organization.
The benefit of "remote work" is that it should enable greater freedom and flexibility — yet for many, it's led to be even more inundated with communications, back-to-back meetings and extended working hours. To realize the potential of remote work as a path to greater productivity and freedom, we need to move toward asynchronous work. Here's how to do it.
Now, managers need to learn how to maximize hybrid work productivity by determining what employees can most productively work on at home, and what to focus on when they come to the office.
After 25 years of helping women find remote jobs, I've learned how to catch a fake job posting, suspicious website or questionable email address pretty quickly. Here are my tips for spotting a job scam from a mile away.
A 32-year-old nonprofit worker went to Vegas while working remotely. They didn't tell their boss, and everything was going smoothly until an unexpected Zoom meeting.
Salesforce permits a high degree of flexibility for employees: teams and their leaders can choose what kind of work arrangements suit their needs best. But does such flexibility threaten the development and integration of recently-hired junior staff?
This behavioral economist conducted a survey in the United States across a wide age range, asking the participants about their experiences with remote and hybrid work models, and how it has impacted their productivity and their relationships with their colleagues.
While Elon Musk is right to question the effectiveness of fully remote teams, his solution to return to the office full-time is misguided. Here's one remote CEO's take on why his concerns are right, but his solution is wrong — and how to make remote work functional.
Technology has made collaboration across space relatively seamless, but time is the most significant barrier most face in reaping the benefits of a global workforce. Overcoming time barriers with remote teams is only possible through asynchronous collaboration. Here's how to do it.
In these uncertain times of global recession and quiet quitting culture, entrepreneurs can leverage staff augmentation services to mitigate operational costs and promptly fill talent gaps.