The COVID pandemic has changed much about how we get work done. For one thing, the huge shift from working in the office to working from home has brought many benefits as well as many challenges to the table. In less than 24 months, the US workforce went from 4.1% working from home to 69% […]
Remote Work
This is Why Hybrid Workplaces Are the Future of Office Jobs
Prior to the pandemic, working from home was a fringe concept unavailable to most workers. Yet when coronavirus came to the US, 95% of office workers transitioned to working remotely at least part time. After trying out a new work format for over a year, 97% now say they find remote work preferable. Workers point […]
Avoid These 5 Pitfalls of Hybrid Office Work
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
