5 Tips To Keep and Improve Employee Motivation and Engagement During Work From Home
How you treat your employees during these uncertain times speaks highly of your company culture and the company leadership. With uncertainty, fear and additional challenges in everyone’s life, it becomes harder for employees to bring their best self to work every day. However, these times call for employees at all levels to be even more […]
Are women leaders more successful at managing a crisis? An interview with Ginger Dhaliwal
Female political leaders being heralded for their effective responses to the pandemic. So we wanted to know how women leaders in business have handled the challenges so far. Ginger Dhaliwal is the Co-Founder and CPO at Upflex, a New York-based B2B SaaS platform for on-demand workspace for businesses. We spoke with her about her leadership […]
Moving forward: How to manage your mental health after COVID-19
With the lockdown restrictions slowly easing in some parts of the world, we’re finally on our way back to normalcy. Still, this doesn’t mean we can all forget the harsh reality we’ve come to live with. Right now it looks like there won’t be a world “after COVID” any time soon. Instead, we have entered […]
People Operations: The Heroes of Successful Remote Companies with Ali Greene
People Operations may not be the first remote job that comes to mind. Yet they are the glue that keeps remote teams together. To deliver their best at work, employees must first be happy and content in the workplace regardless if it’s online or not. We spoke to Ali Greene, former Director of People Operations […]
Compliance for Remote Workers: What you need to know
Guest author: Anja Simic is the Head of Marketing at Deel, a fully distributed team that built the first remote payroll system for contractors. As experts in remote worker compliance, they are developing a solution for full-time employment. Employ anyone, anywhere in the world as a compliant and legal full- time employee. Join the waitlist […]
Remote Offboarding: Key tips to terminate employees remotely
At a remote company, each step in an employee’s ‘lifecycle’ at the company holds equal importance. The lack of physical connection leads remote companies to care more for their employees. Especially at the time of departure, the lack of physical proximity requires remote companies to thoughtfully design the offboarding process. Research by Aberdeen found that […]
5 Key Tips for Onboarding Employees Remotely
We’ve established in the past that remote hiring is different. The dynamics of successfully hiring the right talent require efforts that involve writing a succinct job description and acing every aspect that showcases your brand. Another key aspect of hiring remotely is onboarding your new hires without seeing them face to face. With the COVID-19 […]
People Ops: The Heroes of Successful Remote Companies
People Operations is a crucial yet sometimes overlooked function within companies. Some consider People Ops a sub-function of HR, others claim it’s the evolution of HR to become more strategic, transparent and holistic. Either way, it has become clear that People Ops hold the key to successful distributed teams. They are ultimately the glue that […]
State of Remote Work in Germany: Interview with Komoot
While Germany has been named as the second-best place for remote working in Europe, German companies are still slow to adapt to flexible work models. Research shows, that only about 40% of companies allowed employees to work from home in 2019. This number includes both fully and partially remote workers. Some sources even claim that […]
Why you need women workers in your remote workforce
Let’s all acknowledge that women were probably the first few remote workers. More than a hundred years ago, “housewives” would take on additional work like sewing, ironing or light manufacturing to do at home. Later on, women still stayed home for childcare, while starting to juggle office tasks with household duties. In today’s work environment, […]
Remote team challenges: An individual approach
Not all remote teams are created equal. Therefore, prescribing general processes, structures or tools can sometimes do even more harm than good when it comes to solving remote team challenges. Zuzanna Przybyla takes an individual approach to coaching teams at World Is Your Office. After assessing each remote team’s specific challenges, she runs tailored training […]
State of Remote Work in Germany: Interview with YAZIO
While Germany has been named as the second-best place for remote working in Europe, German companies are still slow to adapt to flexible work models. Research shows, that only about 40% of companies allowed employees to work from home in 2019. This number includes both fully and partially remote workers. Some sources even claim that […]