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3 Simple Tips for Managing Remote Employees
Regardless of when this pandemic ends (which feels like never to me right now), the way we work will never go back to how it was before.
Sure, offices will open and some people will return to their cubicles, but many won’t.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about work over the past several months, it’s that work can be done successfully well beyond the walls of the office — sometimes even better.
What this means for how organizations and leaders decide to change policies and reshape office environments is yet to be sorted out. But there is one thing for certain.
We are going to be managing employees who we can’t “see” in the office every day for the indefinite future. Remote work is never going away. In fact, as remote work expert Laurel Farrer put it this week as we discussed this topic as part of a panel, “soon we won’t even call it ‘remote’ work anymore. It will just be ‘work’.”
So, while it may take a while to sort out what this all means in the big picture, there is one thing we can focus on right now that will have an enormous impact on our teams and their ability to perform: We need to get really good at managing remote employees.
