It's also a great way to
make remote workers feel more connected to the main office.
Not exact matches
IT»S a constant dilemma for those working in
remote and isolated mining locations; a
worker identifies a hazard but it's potentially hours before anyone else is
made aware of it.
In a recent HBR piece, Stop Meeting Like This co-founder Renee Cullinan offers some tips (she also addresses
making your meeting more friendly to women and
remote workers).
Even with strong communication practices, technical pitfalls continue to
make life as a
remote worker difficult.
He says the switch to a hybrid model has encouraged him to streamline other processes, including adopting a cloud - based file system (WorkZone) that
makes it easier for
remote workers to collaborate.
Even so, the researchers aren't
making broad pronouncements that
remote work always trumps office work in terms of productivity, but rather suggest certain kinds of
workers might be better suited for it, such as solitary, hourly folks whose output can be measured — call - center reps, proofreaders, developers, and the like.
Make some face time for your
remote workers through the magic of videoconferencing tools like Skype or Hangouts.
So we were curious: What
makes coworking spaces — defined as membership - based workspaces where diverse groups of freelancers,
remote workers, and other independent professionals work together in a shared, communal setting — so effective?
Amazon
made headlines this year when the company announced plans to hire 5,000
remote workers in the coming months.
Names
make a difference — we had talked about
remote workers, deployed associates... but at the end of the day, we let them choose.»
Says HR manager Marilyn McCawley, «Meeting challenges head on with the guidance of our
remote workers has
made a significant impact on our success as a virtual company.»
Are you
making onboarding mistakes with
remote workers?
«As a
remote worker, Workfrom
makes me feel like part of a global community of people who look out for each other and promote a lifestyle of freedom.»
A lot of big companies have to
make big decisions about how they manage
remote workers.
Remote work helps businesses
make the most of the
workers they do have, while still keeping the needs of each
worker in mind, says Emily Morgan, founder of
They enabled health
workers in
remote villages in Africa and Asia to accurately and almost instantly diagnose malaria,
making them less likely to overuse the new generation of «wonder drugs,» artemisinin - based combination therapies (ACTs), which were in danger of being lost to drug resistance.
Helping everyone from shift
workers in
remote areas to City bankers with a 5 minute lunch break, these are easy tips
made accessible for all people, helping everyone boost their meals and their wallets.
This combined with the fast and reliable WiFi
make the Ritz Village Hostel the perfect stop for digital nomads or
remote workers looking to explore the Caribbean.
We've used different project management software to do it, e-mail, and even not just our writers but our actual staff team we have an office but many of them work from home or work remotely at least part of the time by choice and it's something we allow and encourage, but it isn't always the perfect solution for
making sure that teams of people are on the same page and coordinated, and that's of course completely setting aside the fact that there are plenty of business owners who care about Face time and
making sure people are working hard and we've actually, we trust the people we work with so that's not even on our radar, though it definitely would be on some small law firms radars as an additional struggle with
remote workers.
«Access to the Google Play store and the Android apps ecosystem, combined with the freemium productivity suites such as Slack,
make [Chromebooks] a viable option for
remote workers,» Gartner's Goertz told TechNewsWorld, «and Samsung's carefully selected price points are justified vis - a-vis the slightly less expensive competition.»
The gig economy is often a
remote workforce
made up of independent contract
workers, temps, freelancers, and service providers, entrepreneurs, and other non-traditional
workers; and it's growing fast.
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make up the global coworking community.
I wanted to
make these visits so that I could speak directly with community members and health care
workers in order to understand the problems of
remote communities.