Comprehensive guidance for thriving in distributed teams, optimizing your home workspace, maintaining work-life boundaries, and leveraging digital collaboration tools
As remote and hybrid work models become standard, this category provides essential resources for:
Drawing from years of remote work experience, these articles offer practical solutions to common distributed work challenges while highlighting the benefits this flexible arrangement can bring to your professional and personal life.
Working at home comes with many benefits, like wearing slippers all day and being your boss, but it’s essential to have an effective organizational plan to make it profitable. These strategies for organizing your workday and environment will help you meet your goals.
A foolproof formula for avoiding distractions
There are many advantages to working at home, but there's at least one drawback. Telecommuters are 50% less likely to get promoted, according to a Stanford University study. Other research suggests that this is due to the assumptions your colleagues make when they don't see you around the office regularly.
Whether you are working remotely or in an office there is always the lingering issues of burnout, isolation, and anxiety. Establishing a culture that acknowledges and recognizes this allows for a more productive and fulfilling work environment.
Working from home is becoming much more common. On the surface, it sounds ideal. You can work in your robe while you talk to your dog. You might even have your favorite movie on in the background. Your boss can’t even track your internet time!
2020 was a year rife with changes and challenges.
Wherever you work, impressing your boss is part of your job requirements. You probably know what to do when your supervisor sits in the office next door, but you may need to think more creatively if you seldom see each other.
Have you found yourself working from home, but where you’ve set up your work center is getting in the way of your normal family activities? If you don't have a spare room in your home and need to set up a home office, there are a few other areas in your house that you may consider using.
Working from home comes with its own set of benefits, distractions, and frustrations that are quite different from those you find in the regular workplace.
Working alone sounds great. No one steals the last cup of coffee, and there's no boss telling you to get to work. There's one big catch. Remote workers often suffer from isolation. You may have limited opportunities to interact with others. This can become quite uncomfortable after a while. Before you start talking to your plant, take control of the situation.