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How to Keep Remote Employees Engaged

Reflektive

According to Gallup’s most recent data, 43% of American employees work remotely at least part of the time. That’s up from 39% in 2012. With work-from-anywhere policies becoming more and more common and the remote workforce continuing to grow, companies need to make a concerted, consistent effort to keep their remote employees engaged.

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Tips for Managing Remote Teams

Newmeasures

Managers are faced with the challenge of navigating increased uncertainty and change, moving business initiatives forward, and supporting remote teams in the best way possible. There are many actionable ways managers can engage their physically dispersed teams despite the challenge of change and uncertainty. Mathieu, J.,

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Psychological safety leads to better managers and teams at this major enterprise

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

What makes an effective team? In 2012, Google conducted a multi-year study to answer that question. They used a combination of “hard” performance metrics and “soft” evaluations by leaders, executives and team members to measure effectiveness and found eight attributes that contribute to it. Building better remote teams.

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How 4 winning companies use Bob to drive business success

HiBob

(A snapshot from Bob showing feedback from ecosio’s performance reviews) Celebrating cultural diversity across a remote workforce Mailbird is an email management application with millions of users worldwide. They promote their busy schedule of activities through Bob, ensuring everyone knows what’s going on.

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7 habits of successful remote teams

Thrive Global

A challenge often faced by remote team members is not fully understanding how their work fits into the bigger picture. In a 2012 study they found that people who had watched the negative news bulletin spent more time thinking and talking about their worry and were more likely to catastrophize’. Maintain connection.

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Jan Van Bruaene: “Hang out with your remote team”

Thrive Global

Hang out with your remote team. With weekly group meetings, regular 1-on-1 meetings, and almost daily conversations, I felt I was in tune with the team in Spain. After managing the application services team, I moved over to the product development side and joined the R&D team in 2012 as RTI’s new VP of Engineering.

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Examples of virtual companies that ditched the office

Rise

Distributed or virtual companies have found ways to overcome challenges associated with remote teams, and they’re reshaping traditional benefits and perks at the same time. We originally published this article in April, 2016—four years before the COVID-19 virus forced companies to become remote in a very short amount of time.