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For small businesses, remote work offers a powerful opportunity to attract talent and enhance flexibility, while reducing office and administration costs. By utilising digital tools and internet connectivity, your team can work outside the traditional office, leading to improved work-life integrations for many employees. However, managing a remote team comes with its own set of challenges, including potential feelings of isolation, blurred work-life boundaries, and the need for strong self-management.
While not every industry can fully embrace remote work, if it’s feasible for your business, your role as an employer, manager or HR colleague becomes crucial in ensuring its success. This involves providing your team with the necessary tools, establishing clear communication channels, and creating a structured work environment. This may also entail additional efforts to strengthen team bonds and maintain the sense of work community.
To help you navigate these aspects, this page provides knowledge and tools needed for effective remote work management. It covers topics, such as:
– Leading and supporting a remote team
– Setting healthy boundaries when working from home
– Addressing loneliness in remote teams
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Managing in-person teams is challenging, but leading remote ones presents an entirely different set of obstacles. This article by People Managing People describes challenges remote work managers likely face and provides 27 tips for overcoming them.
This video by Forbes provides four ways that you as a manager or an employer can manage remote teams successfully and foster a stronger company culture.
This publication by the Finnish Centre for Occupational Safety highlights the supervisor’s key role in managing teams that interact fully or partially online. It describes good management practices that supervisors can utilise to take care of their responsibilities and to support the work community.
The responsibility for safety and health at work rests with the employer regardless of whether an employee works remotely or at the employer’s premises. This guidebook from the Irish Health and Safety Authority helps employers assess the safety, health and welfare of their remote work arrangements.
Human resources professionals can assist remote teams by identifying common communication problems, implementing preventive strategies, and addressing issues as they arise. This article by Human Resources Director US outlines seven effective strategies that HR personnel can use to help remote workers navigate communication challenges.
The “always-on” work culture is not only detrimental for our personal well-being but our work as well. Watch this TED talk by a Harvard Business School Professor to learn about the bad habits that stop us from getting what we need out of our free time and three practical steps for setting boundaries that stick.
Just as there are a variety of remote work opportunities, there are a number of different types of remote workers who will fill them. Which set-up you prefer will have to do with your own professional priorities, values, and personal lifestyle. Do this quiz by Remote.Co to find out which type of remote worker you are!
Here you can find an online version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale, a scale designed to measure one’s subjective feelings of loneliness as well as feelings of social isolation. The tool can be used by employees and employers alike to evaluate their own risks for loneliness.
Remote work can increase loneliness among some employees. This article by the Centre for Workplace Mental Health US provides five tips for employers for how they can make a difference in effectively addressing loneliness.