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Remote work
Discover how to overcome common challenges of remote work and hybrid work, improve communication, and maintain productivity while working remotely.
With remote work popularity, we need to learn more about it to understand how your company can benefit from hiring remote employees. To ensure that remote work is going well, you need to know how to organize it and what characteristics people should have to be good remote employees.
An employee's absence in the office indicates that he or she is heavily sick. But what to do when one needs not to go to the office, or even if there is no office at all?
The idea of remote work is not new. It has recently evolved from telecommuting, an idea forged in IBM in early 1970. With the development of the technology that allowed it to connect with the mainframe computer from basically any location using the telephone wires.
In the narrative depicting the employers’ perspective on the hybrid work and the business transformation, it is easy (yet harmful) to overlook the employee’s view on the hybrid work and the potential challenges that the company may face due to it.
The first lockdown has delivered proof that many jobs can be made remote in a matter of days if not hours. But the fact that it is possible does not mean that it is made in a good or wise way. Making a job hybrid requires a bit more than just relocating home - and this guide provides more details on the matter.
Businesses around the world suffered shock from the unimaginable ways in which the pandemic changed the world. Thanks to software old and new that helped businesses manage operations remotely, the global business community adapted rather quickly.
Hybrid work popularity has exploded since the shock therapy of lockdowns and COVID-19 pandemic induced isolation. But while the companies get increasingly savvy regarding the new reality, sometimes it is all about the employees who need guidance about reshaping their reality.
According to the Adventure Travel trade association data, up to 20% of US employees have become digital nomads due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the rise of remote work and an increasing number of people working from basically anywhere, the companies need to adjust their policies and open for both the remote work and workcation.
The report delivered by Owl Labs shows clearly that the remote revolution has changed the world for better or worse.
When the lockdowns started and nearly a half of the EU workforce was suddenly switched to the home office, there were questions about when “everything will be back to normal”. Now we know – never. The world has already changed and hybrid work is one of the key aspects to adopt in the new reality.
The COVID-19 pandemic made it obvious that working can be done from the office, from home, from the hotel, or from any place the employee considers fitting, as long the work allows and the job is done. This constatation is the first step to leverage the power of global team building – because does i
Offshore software development services deliver great software for low cost, build a competitive advantage and harness the experience gathered in countless projects done for hundreds of clients from around the world.
Remote work is emerging as an industrial trend. The software industry, in particular, has seen growth in remote hiring and software development outsourcing.
In the middle of the lockdown, there was a group that was especially burdened by the new reality – parents. Remaining a productive employee while having a preschooler in-house can be exhausting to the point of insanity. But despite being hard, it is not impossible, especially when following...
Halloween is a very popular holiday wildly celebrating in the USA, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Spooky atmosphere, dressing up, going trick, or treating – those are funny traditions which are also a great opportunity for partying.
Managers are afraid that remote workers will overwork themselves while not being as effective as in the office. A transparent culture is the best answer to this challenge.
The pandemic of COVID-19 triggered a fundamental shift in the approach toward teleworking or remote work. During the lockdown four of ten employees in the EU were working from home - a thing unimaginable a quarter before.
Recently we are experiencing a revolution in the traditional, onsite model of work. An increasing number of employees tend to choose remote or semi-remote work over a nine-to-five stationary job. Big changes can be beneficial or destructive, but in this case, the change seems to bring many benefits.
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