All the questions about remote work you’ve been too busy to ask, until now

How do you…

How do you evaluate whether your business is able or ready to go remote, or to incorporate a more flexible remote policy?  What will the business benefits be and how do they weigh against the disadvantages?  With more companies adding remote flexibility to their work offering, how do you “get the best of both worlds” and ensure you remain competitive?  What are the challenges in bringing young, inexperienced workers onboard, remotely – how do you re-imagine their training and mentoring so they build the skills and capabilities and feel supported?  How do you lead remote teams effectively, how do you manage the control-freak in you to ensure you’re managing them not smothering them?  How do you keep the team pulling together? How do you keep up the energy and momentum of a remote sales team?

These are all valid questions about remote work…..and there’s more…:

Remote work questions you need to answer, if transitioning to remote

How are office Real Estate strategies changing in light of Covid19 and pivots to remote and hybrid work models – will you need more, or less space in the next 5 years?  What impact is remote work having on recruitment and retention? How are businesses perpetuating their company culture – particularly for new recruits – when they aren’t able to offer the branded, covetable, comfortable trappings of a desirable workspace?  How are employers managing remote workers who are struggling to adjust, what steps are they taking to monitor and manage their mental physical help?  Have you got your remote workers “set-up right”, do they have ergonomic desks and chairs and the right accessories for their laptops to reduce strain and injury? Are you protected from liability?  What are the highly effective steps being taken by highly effective remote teams?  In essence – how do you “do” remote, effectively?

Across the Globe, Senior Managers, HR Leaders and CEOs are wrestling with these questions and yet much of the advice dispensed by the kindly google comes from companies that have always been remote, or significantly remote and therefore letting go off a short-term lease in a shared workspace was as easy as turning off the light switch.  But for larger, more traditional and complex businesses the need to reconsider their remote working approach is critical to maintaining their competitiveness – both as a business and as an employer – and yet there is no clear roadmap, as yet, to help them establish how to transition to remote or to a hybrid working model, effectively.  That’s where we come in:

Expert Interview Series on Remote Work

Our upcoming Expert Interview Series will be addressing all these questions and more. Join us each week at 4pm (GMT, 11am EST) on Thursdays as we bring you the business leaders and experts who are already tackling these issues.  We’re starting next week:

Thursday 1st October: Mike Vaughn, Head of Talent Management, Framatome

Join us for a coffee and a chat with Mike Vaughn, Head of Talent Management at Framatome.  Mike is a remote worker in a non-remote company.  He shares his experience of working remotely and addresses head-on the challenges businesses need to confront when evaluating their remote work policies. What are the questions business needs to consider?  What are the challenges of working remotely and how do they begin to close the gaps, to overcome these? What are the benefits of remote work?  What’s the impact of remote, on recruitment and retention?

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