Why remote work is the future of employment


What is remote work?

Remote work also known as telecommuting, working from home, is any work environment where employees do not need to work in the same office. Remote work refers to work that is being done by individuals who are not in the same physical place but still work effectively and productively on the same projects (Savina,2020).

Types of remote teams

1. Fully remote teams

When a company does not have any central offices and everyone works from home or from office spaces; it is a fully remote team.

2. Distributed office hubs

When a company decides to create small offices in different cities from its head office, its workforce becomes “distributed.”

- Satellite office

- Local ownership

- True partnership

 

3. Flexible remote teams

Employees are not fully remote or working from distributed hubs. But they are also not in the same location all the time. 

Benefits:

1. Remote work reduces costs

2. Ability to hiring top talent

3. Higher employee retention with remote jobs

4. Greater diversity leads to better products

5. Fewer employees commuting is more sustainable

Remote work myths

1.  Remote workers are lonely and unhappy

2. Quality of communication diminishes through remote work

3. Remote meetings are ineffective

4.  Productivity decreases when working from home

5.  Team culture is not exist when working remotely

 

Best practices that helped to create remote team culture

1. Create a space to outline goals and values as a team.

  Collaborate with your colleagues to come up with mission, vision, and core values and outline it in a shared document, then everyone can revisit it and make sure their personal goals are aligned with it.

 

2. Walk the walk.

When it comes to a healthy flexible working arrangement, managers can lead the staff .

 

3. Be thoughtful. 

Get familiar with your remote team members’ work environment.

 

4. Make time for chitchat. 

Take a few moments at the beginning of each meeting to focus on personal stuff. It is crucial to build relationships and strengthen team collaboration.

 

5. Consciously re-create the best of in-office culture.

Order coffee, tea or food for remote employees who are in meetings to help them feel included to the organization.


References 

  Savina,A.(2020) The ultimate guide to remote work.miro,1-6

 

 

Comments

  1. Janashi Lamahewa18 April 2021 at 10:59

    Author has taken a timely topic and explained clearly about the benefits and the best practices of the remote work.It would be much completed if author could have cited properly.
    As per the AAyat Alli 2017, in this hybrid work place employers are unable to see how their remote employees are interacting and connecting with their team members. My view is the biggest challenges of remote working is collaboration. With this hybrid work place it is hard working together and set processes to make choices that all members agrees.
    Article is worth to read.

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  2. Ruwan Herath19 April 2021 at 04:34

    Remote working is a mostly discussing topic in these days specially due to the pandemic. There are number of advantages & disadvantages as author described.
    I feel that although some organization will be able to practice this concept, some organization such as apparel manufacturing will not be able to practice this concept.
    However, since this is help to boost the moral of employees, effective implementation of the technique will be benefited to the organization.

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  3. Udari Weerasinghe2 May 2021 at 04:47

    With today’s technology and worker preferences, it’s clear that remote working is here to stay. To accommodate this huge shift, it’s important to understand it. To recognise the ‘new world of work’ made of new possibilities, new standards, and new working relationships. The new world of work is essentially separated from time and physical space. With emphasis now on performance over working time and/or location

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  4. Asela Fernando14 May 2021 at 01:29

    what are global practices, what is the techno impact to this

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