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HR Managers – 5 Tricky Questions to Consider in Developing a Remote Work Policy

Should salaries change for employees shifting to remote? And other questions to consider in writing your remote work policy If you’re a HR Director or HR Manager, looking to add some verbiage to your employment policies, to adapt to the fact that some of your staff are currently working remotely, or you’re looking to write […]

Remote work global news – October round-up

October remote work news round-up Permanent shifts to the way we work – with more large companies announcing remote, hybrid and virtual work models The bbc reported that Microsoft are making their remote work options permanent, joining rivals facebook and twitter. Google is adapting a flexible, long-term hybrid model which allows for employees to work […]

Remote Work Super Powers: Maintaining Creativity

Rachel Lanham from Voodle brings you the first instalment of a new blog series, in which she busts the myths around remote work and helps you flex your remote work super powers. This week: Maintaining Creativity When Working Remotely Myth: creativity only happens in a crowded room, at a white board and with a bowl […]

5 things remote companies should consider when hiring for cultural fit

5 things remote companies should consider when hiring for cultural fit By Julia Masselos Julia is the Marketing Lead at Toggl Hire, a pre-employment skills testing tool designed to make hiring easier, faster, and fairer. You’ve shortlisted your top-qualified candidates and are calling them in for interviews. But you’ve never hired remotely for a remote […]

Top 10 tips for non-remote businesses working remotely

If your business is working remotely – but only temporarily – you need to read this! Much of the insight, education and guidance for remote workers and remote managers is geared toward fully remote or remote-first organizations. But, particularly at the moment, many businesses are partially remote but, whilst they may intend to continue to […]

Supplier Spotlight: Wurkr’s Virtual Office Platform Explained

What do you offer and how does it help, what problems do you solve? Wurkr enables team management and employee wellbeing and encourages impromptu social interactions in distributed teams. It empowers teams through collaboration and creativity by enabling spontaneous chats and building/maintaining company culture within remote teams. Wurkr makes it simple and easy to onboard […]

Is There a Cost-Benefit to Providing Employees With a Work From Home Office Set-up Allowance?

Employee Home Office Set-ups Yesterday, I came across a NY Times Article published in September 2020 stating that 92% of Chiropractors surveyed reported a surge in reported neck, back and wrist pain along with other musculoskeletal issues among work-from-home (WFH) employees. What concerns me is that the survey was conducted in April, when people had […]

5 Tips to Work and School From Home Effectively

Working Remotely and Homeschooling? Many remote workers feel a newfound sense of freedom and flexibility and may be reluctant to return to the office. Yet, working from home has posed an unprecedented challenge for parents. Particularly those employees with children who are distant learning or on a hybrid schedule this school year. Managing zoom […]

Adopting a Virtual First Approach

The Transition to Virtual and Remote Earlier this week, we wrote both about the increasing number of companies announcing they will transition to hybrid remote work environments, and about the challenges of managing culture – particularly for hybrid remote businesses which will have to contend with the reality of different employees getting a different employee […]

The Challenges of Managing Culture in a Remote and Hybrid-Remote Business

Remote Work Challenges When we conducted our research, questioning CEO’s on the challenges, for their teams, in working remotely for the whitepaper Remote Work;The CEO Perspective, we discovered two very interesting things; The number of employees working remotely,post-pandemic, looks set to double – at least – compared to preCovid rates That the key remote work […]