The COVID-19 pandemic gave millions of people a glimpse of what life could be like outside the cubicle. While a few people discovered just how much they liked going into the office every day after being forced to work from home for months on end, most found that they liked the flexibility and comfort of […]
Remote Work
Small Business: Unique Ways to Beat Labor Shortage
Political and economic pundits have been discussing the increasing labor shortage, though it would not appear to have one single root cause. As employees ask for higher wages, existing distribution structures are struggling with the demands. A few industries have raised prices as a way to deal with this while others are working with their […]
How to Best Support Your Remote Team in 2022
The pandemic of 2020 drove many companies to seek remote solutions to work once conducted in person. Even those brands going back to the office are now adopting a hybrid approach, where employees work from home at least a few days a week. Owl Labs and Global Workplace Analytics conducted a State of Remote Work […]
How to Pave Your Own Path to Work-Life Balance
Teleworking went on high gear in 2020 as many businesses were forced to make staff work from home due to shelter-in-place orders and travel restrictions. A year later, over half of employees want to retain the setup or at least keep the option of working remotely for 25 percent of the time. But 40 percent […]
Great Advice from Richard Branson and Others on Motivating Remote Workers
With millions of employees working remotely across the world, an entire class of team leaders, managers, and HR professionals have new challenges on their hands. While remote work is not a new phenomenon, it hasn’t been coordinated on this level, to this degree, at any time in history. It’s an experiment in progress, and every […]
The Battle Between Remote Work and Cybersecurity
Are you working from home? Reading this on your phone or laptop? If you are like the majority of Americans you most likely answered yes to both of these questions and you most likely are being watched by a hacker. The transition to remote work has brought an insane amount of increased cyber crimes. The […]
Make These 5 Roles More Productive When Working From Home
The pandemic changed our professional lives a lot. For those who chose remote work voluntarily, a lockdown was not a shock. At the same time, millions of people were forced to work from home unexpectedly, and they felt lost without the familiar office environment and support from their colleagues — even if their previously safe […]
How to Maintain Employee Satisfaction With Remote Work
Photo by Alexandra Koch on Pixabay The most important asset any business has at its disposal is its employees. Without our employees, the whole operation would fall apart; they are the lynchpin, the cornerstone of work; without them, your business would just be an idea with no one to see it come to life. Hence […]
Fixing the Roadblocks to Remote Work
For many of us, remote work has been our reality for much of the past year. At times it can seem like one of the best things to come out of this pandemic with its ease and convenience of working in your own environment. While it is true that many people enjoy and prefer remote […]
Emerging Trends of Human Resource Management
The year of the COVID pandemic is one of the exceptional years of modern history. And, for the human resource industry, this year was a great change with both positive and negative effects. Do you have confusion about how COVID-19 positively impacts the HR industry? Yes, you heard right…. COVID-19 forced the HR industry to […]
