As any experienced entrepreneur can attest, the first year represents a make-or-break period for most small businesses. A fledgling enterprise’s ability – or inability – to balance its finances is often the determinant factor in whether it’s able to keep its doors open after the one-year mark. That being the case, meticulous money management should […]
Telecommuting
Need to Telecommute? Use These Tech Tools for Optimized Remote Work
Mastering the art of working remotely can come with many challenges. To begin, let’s take a look at an excerpt from Remote: Office Not Required by John Fried & David Heinemeir, the founders of Basecamp. It reads, “When the bulk of your communication happens via email and the like, it doesn’t take much for bad […]
Use Mobile Apps To Efficiently Handle A Remote Team
Remote work is the future. According to a study published by Upwork, close to a third of all workers will be fully remote by 2028. Collaborating with your remote team members and ensuring a streamlined work set up can be a challenge when a major chunk of your workers don’t log into your office . […]
Fall Back in Love with Working Remotely
Many people may envy you because you don’t work in the same 9-5 office every day. But if you’ve been working from home, working freelance, or remotely for a long time, then the novelty may have worn off. There was a time when you loved hanging around in coffee shops and working. The idea of […]
Are You a Remote Manager? A Good One?
Are you a virtual manager? Can you be effective if you are a “virtual” manager, commuting from home or a home office and being with your employees only part time? Measuring your performance In a virtual environment, people measure you mostly by your actions, and remember only the most recent good work you’ve done for them […]
Reducing Risks for Mobile or Remote Workers
More and more companies are choosing to allow their workers to work remotely on either a full-time or part-time basis. While this can be an ideal situation as far as employee satisfaction goes, it can bring up a number of security risks. Here are the things that you will need to look at to keep […]
Smart Offices and the Death of the Cubicle
Technology experts are working to change how people work in and out of the office by changing how they interact with their physical space. Modern offices are being turned into smart offices with the skillful help of IT specialists. Intelligent surveillance systems built to prevent shady goings-on are also used to analyze employees’ productivity throughout […]
Working from Home: Employer and Employee Benefits
You can imagine the benefits of working from home for employees: lounging on the couch, drinking hot chocolate, taking an afternoon nap. But most of those benefits are imaginary—and untrue. In fact, 30 percent of employees who worked from home said that the limited distractions in their home offices led to more productivity. Read more on […]
How to Streamline Remote Working for Your Team
Working for a small business in 2017 is different than it was in past years. More people are working remotely. However, streamlining the team of workers is just as important for smaller businesses as it is for its larger counterparts. As you’ll see, there are many things a company can do to create a plan […]
Is Remote Working Taking Over?
Remote workers across the world are turning the traditional 9-5 working day into a thing of the past. Businesses and employees alike are opting for working remotely, and with it being proven to have a positive impact on staff health and productivity levels, it’s not hard to see why. Although the concept of remote working […]
