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Tucker
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How to be Remote-First When You Still Have an Office
The challenges of hybrid teams
Most companies embracing remote work also have dedicated headquarters. But remote-ish teams have even more communication and collaboration challenges than fully remote teams.
...Remote-friendly vs remote-first
The single biggest mistake companies can make is to opt to be remote-friendly instead of remote-first. Companies often accept the idea that remote is the future of work without creating an inclusive culture to ensure it works for everyone.
- Remote-friendly environment: Employees are allowed to work remotely, but work is not optimized for it. There is a disconnect between office and remote employees and team meetings exclusively occur in a co-located time zone. Water cooler chat is a space for key decisions and presence is correlated with meaningful work. Communication is synchronous-first. Managers must work in the office.
- Remote-first companies: Employees are empowered to adopt remote work. Real-time meetings are kept to a minimum and recorded. Decisions are made online and performance is measured by output, not by hours worked. Communication is asynchronous-first. Managers are encouraged to work from home.
Connecting a remote-ish team
Hybrid companies function best when the entire company is optimized for remote work. Successful hybrid teams set up processes to help their remote workers thrive alongside their office teammates.
Leadership must acknowledge the various challenges remote workers face and create solutions. Create a remote work policy that keeps remote workers and contractors from feeling like second class team members. Remote workers should feel fully connected and not missing a thing.
Jackson E.
@jacksonee43
Can Remote Teams Be Innovative?
Argument against remote work
The argument is that while remote employees may be more personally productive, the team creativity and innovation suffer. People really need spontaneous interactions at the water c...
Arguments for remote work
Leaders who say remote teams can't be innovative fail to see the potential problem as a starting point for innovation.
Logic also would suggest that early adopters of remote work are indeed more likely to be innovative and open to new ideas and ways of working.
Research in favour of in-office collaboration
- One research-backed argument favouring co-located teams is that teams are more collaboratively efficient and solve problems faster.
- An article covering IBM's move to shutter their remote workforce in 2017 states that business today is more like a series of emergencies that needs to be diagnosed and then receive a quick-and-dirty solution, get feedback, course-correct, and repeat. But a team in constant reactive mode is neither productive nor innovative.
- Instead of optimizing for workforces that respond to emergencies, companies should be optimizing for workforces that limit emergencies.
Oscar
@osc684
Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It
Asynchronous communication
There are mainly two ways to communicate within a company: synchronous and asynchronous communication. While the second type has always been widely practiced, as face-to-face meetings or any other ...
Real-time communication drawbacks
While real-time communication inside of a team might lead to solving faster some issues, it also has various disadvantages.
For instance, having your colleagues come to ask you questions to which you feel pressured to answer on the spot leads to you being continuously interrupted, which results in being less productive and feeling stressed or even getting a burnout, as you try to do everything in proper time.
The asynchronous workplace
When the employees are provided with control as to when they are willing to communicate with their co-workers, there are many advantages that emerge.
For instance, having the freedom to decide exactly how your working day should look like leads to more satisfied employees as well as to better communication within the team. Further benefits vary from feeling less stressed due to better planning to greater transparency and more efficient work.
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