Remote Work
Remote work is a buzzword that’s been hugely popularised by the pandemic, however, it’s been around for quite a while.
Working remotely or building and running a remote team is going to mean looking at things from all types of angles. From recruiting staff to team building events, working in a virtual environment is going to call for some out-of-the-box thinking.
Read all about remote work and how it fits into the digital nomad sphere.
From tips to recruiting top remote staff (if you’re a business owner) to learning how to transition into remote work (if you’re a rookie), you’ll find a plethora of useful articles and tips to help you broaden your knowledge on remote work and what it entails.
How Do You Transition a Hybrid Team to a Fully Remote Team?
Many companies that have tested the waters with remote work through hybrid working models are now contemplating transitioning their hybrid teams to fully remote teams. While that may seem like a relatively straightforward move, it requires lots of good planning to...
Why, How and Whether to Monitor Remote Employee Productivity
There are many reasons why companies choose to monitor their remote staffs’ productivity. Remote work monitoring may emanate from a concern about what staff are doing during the day when they’re not in the office. While it may be tempting to institute rigorous...
The Employee Experience Is Changing Through Workplace Mobility
How people work has changed rapidly over the last few years, and nothing has changed as quite as dramatically as where people need to work. When it comes to improving the employee experience workplace mobility is the undeniable future, and savvy employers are hiring...
How to build a Sustainable Remote Work Culture?
If you’re interested in building a sustainable remote work culture for your organization, then it’s good to first understand what remote work culture is and why it's important. Just as location-based teams thrive on a positive work culture, so too do remote work...
How Insurance Companies Can Adapt to Increased Remote Work
This rise in remote work brings with it many changes to the insurance landscape. It’s therefore necessary that insurance companies adapt to increased remote work, and that companies adjust their policies in line with new working models. As employees are increasingly...
How to Stand Above Other Applicants in a Remote Work Position
Over the last two years, many of us have gotten a taste of working from home. As the pandemic came to an end, a lot of employees jumped to the first chance of returning to the office, while others decided to continue working remotely. Remote and hybrid jobs became...
On-site vs Hybrid vs Full Remote Teams: What Differences in Terms of Insurance?
Where and how we work has changed rapidly over the course of just a few years. It’s now commonplace to have employees working at home for a few days and in the office for a few days in hybrid-style work arrangements. And more and more companies are seeing the...
How to Build Human Connections in the Remote Workplace
The concept of remote work was born mainly out of the pandemic, but it’s here to stay for good. As more and more employees choose to work in remote environments, team leaders and recruiters across the world try to find the answer to the burning question – how do we...
How to Ask for a Promotion When You Work Remotely
While working remotely is way different from your everyday life in an office environment, some issues never change – how to ask for days off, how to manage work relationships, how to maintain work-life balance and last but not least: is it a good idea to ask for a pay...
How to Coordinate Remote Teams Across Different Time Zones
Many of today’s remote working teams comprise people living in different countries or states, across various time zones. Working across a range of timezones can create challenges for team communication and coordinating work. And as asynchronous remote work is set to...
7 Ways to Show Gratitude In A Remote Team
As companies have adapted to the new working environments, so have the remote workers. Many of them have struggled with in-house distractions, work-life balance, organizing home office and never-ending fatigue from those long online calls. But they have also found new...
Which Skills Should I Put on My CV to Get My Dream Job?
Have you been wondering how to enhance your CV so that you can get your dream job? Throughout the hiring process, employers are looking to see whether you have the skills and experience to do the job. That’s why it’s important that your resume captivates and impresses...
What You Need to Know about Remote Working Risks
It’s often only once you’ve been involved in remote work for a while that you start to question the risks of remote working. Cyber security risks of remote working are some of the most commonly discussed risks. But there are several others that we explore below that...
What Are Transferable Skills and Why Are They Important?
If you’re looking for a new job, then it’s vital that you’re able to communicate your transferable skills. That helps employers know what you’re capable of, and can help you to get a competitive edge over other candidates. It can also be a way of communicating that...
Why Investing in Employer Brand Pays Off For Remote Companies
Modern-day remote employer branding looks way different from what we are used to seeing in a face-to-face environment. No more high-tech spaces, ping-pong tables, sleeping rooms or other office perks that would attract people. As the world shifted, employers had to...
Employee Appreciation Ideas for Remote Staff
For many years, companies have been showing their staff appreciation and recognition for their work and service in many different ways. Nowadays, where so many employees work remotely, there is even more reason to intentionally cultivate a culture of showing...
A Guide to Performance Management for Remote Teams
In the office or a remote environment, how your team performs is crucial for your company’s success. As companies around the world hire more remote workers or adopt hybrid systems, managers and team leaders have to shift the ways they manage performances. Among other...
Airbnb on Remote Working: Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Is
In recent months scores of big tech companies have been releasing new remote working policies to adjust to the post-pandemic era. We have mostly been impressed since they are leaps and bounds further forward than what we were seeing pre-2020. But Airbnb CEO Brian...
International Remote Working: Legal Risks for Employers
There has been a dramatic rise in companies hiring remote international employees: employers' needs are a driving force, as are the availability of new online remote work platforms. Many employers are now able to hire the best talent from anywhere in the world, which...
What is a Virtual Assistant? And How Can You Become One?
“A virtual assistant is someone who assists you from where they are, not where you are” Virtual assistant matchmaker, VA trainer and coach Melissa Smith said. Not only does she train VAs, Melissa also matches clients with VAs and works to help them be successful in...
How To Assess Culture Fit When Hiring Remotely?
Remote work has opened up a new pool of candidates that enables businesses to find top talents around the globe. But hiring remotely comes with its challenges causing team leaders to rethink company culture and assessment techniques. It may be relatively easy to...
What is a ‘Shybrid’ Employer?
You may not have heard the term ‘shybrid’ before, but with the slow but certain return to office for many companies, you can be certain you’ll be hearing it a lot more. Essentially, it is a term to describe those employers who are hesitant to embrace the home working...
Can Businesses Really Attract & Retain Talent with Remote Working?
Gone are the days when young graduates were happy to get any job offer, when up and coming employees with 3-5 years of experience were willing to work 100 hours a week to hold onto a job, and when experienced talent could be expected to stay with a firm for life. For...
HR Automation: 7 Benefits for Your Remote Workforce Management
Did you know that according to surveys, not too long ago, most HR managers lost 14 hours a week manually completing tasks that could be automated? In human resources, complexity and evolution go hand in hand. Training your employees, keeping up with compliance...
Remote Workplace Safety Checklist for My Remote Team
The global pandemic of 2020 has spurred a rapid transition to remote work for millions of people around the world. Employers are now eager to ensure compliance with health and safety laws related to new working from home or remote work environments, while also...
8 Companies that Switched to Remote and Hybrid Workforces
Many companies around the world have adopted working from home or remote work policies over the last two years. While some offices are now asking employees to come back to work in offices, many are opting to make remote work a permanent shift. Others are adopting...
The OKR Framework in Remote Teams: What You Need to Know
Interestingly, few people can list their top priorities even though transparency and communication are top of mind these days. In a survey of 11,000 senior managers, leaders, and executives from more than 400 companies, London Business School found the following: Only...
7 Ways to Help Your Remote Team Make Time for Deep Work
Having a remote staff has many advantages: from lower costs and quicker onboarding to more flexibility and access to the highest level of professionals. But when it comes to productivity, managing a remote team comes with its challenges. You might notice that your...
Open Talent: A New Approach to Hiring
The pandemic, global megatrends and rapid digitization have ushered in a plethora of new working models and approaches. This includes millions of people around the world having transitioned during lockdowns into remote work, hybrid work, working from home, and the...
What Are the Most Common Remote Work Security Risks?
As more people work online, and more services are being digitized, there’s an increasing cybersecurity risk for companies. And with increasing numbers of people working from home or working remotely, there are also many more remote work security risks. Deloitte has...
6 Tips on How to Increase the Productivity of Your Remote Team
At some point in 2020, we all had to stay home and all of a sudden, remote working became the new normal. Millions of workers had to leave their office spaces and figure out the ways to work productively from their homes. At the same time, companies had to ensure that...
How to Progress your Career as a Remote Worker
Until the pandemic, remote work was principally the domain of established employees who already had a comfortable niche within their company and had earned the respect of their colleagues and superiors. They could afford to cut their face time to achieve a better...
How Remote Working Policies Can Boost Motivation & Performance
As the pandemic begins to wind down (or at least normalize), many businesses are struggling with the question of what to do about the many employees they sent to work from home. Many businesses want their employees back in the office so that they can focus on company...
Productivity Dysmorphia and How to Recognise Your Own Successes
Podcaster Anna Codrea-Rado recently coined the term ‘productivity dysmorphia’. It describes that feeling you get that you’re not enough - that you haven’t done enough or achieved enough - and that you’re generally not as productive as you should be. The term is linked...
Turn Remote Work Into a Valuable Approach with Strategic Meetings
As remote work becomes more prevalent, employers will respect and cherish their employees' time zones, and they will enjoy a more true sense of freedom. Nevertheless, some employees who are really far from their employer may still be required to work from home outside...
Rethinking Remote Worker Benefits to Attract and Retain Top Talent
There are a wide range of remote worker benefits for both employees and employers. Working remotely, which often means working from home (and can include working from coworking spaces or anywhere else in the world as a digital nomad) - is itself seen as a major perk...
9 Time Management Techniques for Digital Nomads
Effective time management is essential for being productive and getting work done, whether it’s in the comfort of your rental home, modern office or a vintage cafe. But when it comes to digital nomads, time management takes a whole new level. We need to not only meet...
How to Know if Your Future Employer is Remote-Friendly or Remote-First
The number of "remote-friendly" companies has been steadily increasing in the last few decades with the rising popularity of high-speed internet and quality collaboration software. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number is in fact growing even more, and many...
Remote Working Isn’t Killing Creativity. But What Is?
One of the silver linings of the COVID pandemic has been that many people have had the opportunity to experiment with and experience remote working. Only a few years ago it would have been unimaginable for companies to let so many of their staff work remotely. But now...
What Do Hybrid Working Environments Mean for Digital Nomads?
While the hybrid model is great news for most workers, it carries some complications for full-time digital nomads. What does the rise of the hybrid workplace mean for the digital nomad lifestyle? The Hybrid Work Environment and Challenges for Digital Nomads...
Could Writing Be the Next Big Skill for Remote Workers?
Do you recall a time when a project was delayed due to back-and-forth emails between members? Or better yet, how often does this happen to you, because surely most of us experience it at least once. The worst part of it all? You even pulled all-nighters (for a few...
Remote Working in 2022: 10 Trends to Look After
Do you ever wonder why we work the way we do? Where did the benefit of being able to work remotely come from? In response to the changes in society, so has the working environment, and right now we are seeing some changes that, a while back, were still just trends....
Understanding Health Insurance for Remote Workers
If you have a team of remote workers, then you probably want to consider offering them health insurance. But that’s where things get a little challenging. There are various options for providing your employees with health insurance, but not all of them are suitable...
Do You Follow These Rules When Scheduling Remote Work?
It's no secret that productivity is not a natural ability; rather, it's a series of habits to be established and followed consistently each day. When you work remotely, it can often be challenging to reconcile your expectations with what actually happens. While you...
13 Wellness Ideas and Activities for Your Remote Employees
It’s become increasingly important for organizations to actively enhance and foster wellness in the workplace. And since the rapid transition to remote work has taken effect worldwide, largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many employees are looking for ideas of...
The Ultimate Checklist before Accepting A Job In A Hybrid Workplace
Corporate reopening plans are relying on hybrid work models, where some employees work from the office and others work from home. As part of hybrid work models, remote work can be productive as long as employees' needs and desires are balanced with leadership and a...
Building Collective Intelligence in Remote Teams
Oftentimes managers focus on individual staff members’ skills and abilities to perform their jobs, and overlook the contribution of collective intelligence. Recent research on collective intelligence shows that it’s critical for good collaboration among team members,...
How to Encourage Politeness in the Remote Workplace
We’ve recently witnessed a large-scale transition to remote working and many companies intend to continue with remote and hybrid work models. While this certainly has many benefits, it can also be concerning when diverse teams experience rudeness and cultural or...
How to Compensate Remote Staff Located around the World
When you have remote teams working around the world in different countries and different areas of the world, it can be challenging to decide on how to compensate them fairly and equitably. It’s challenging because salaries for the same position vary from country to...
How to ask for flexibility in your job?
One of the things that people want most from a job is flexibility. This has become an even more in-demand employment perk since the start of the pandemic. People are now increasingly working from home (WFH) and many also work flexible hours. But now that many people...
Should we Switch to a 4-Day Work Week?
The idea behind having a 4-day work week was conceived of to improve business productivity, improved happiness and wellness for staff, and a more sustainable working environment. After all, there have been many changes throughout time to the days and hours employees...
10 Tips to Cultivate Company Culture When Your Team is Working Remotely
Company culture can sometimes be called the heart and soul of an organisation. It takes time to cultivate it, and it takes purposeful leadership to maintain it. In essence, it is what makes each company unique from an employee’s perspective and it’s often what can...
9 Tips for Managing Conflict in the Remote Workplace
Managing workplace conflicts can be challenging, but when you’re working remotely then it becomes even more complex. Workplace conflicts can have serious effects on staff morale, efficiency, collaboration, retention rates, and employee engagement. And because of the...
How to Manage Successful Hybrid Meetings
Hybrid meetings are here to stay and we need to find ways to manage them effectively so as to optimise collaboration, communication and productivity. Hybrid meetings are ones where at least one meeting participant joins remotely, while others are onsite in the office....
Cybersecurity Tips for Remote Working
Whether you’re a digital nomad, a full-time or occasional remote worker, or you manage remote working teams, if you are working from home (WFH) then cybersecurity should be at the forefront of your business priorities. Since the seismic shift towards more remote work...
How to Evaluate the Performance of Your Remote Staff
Remote work has become the new norm for millions around the world, since the advent of the global pandemic. Finding ways to effectively evaluate your remote staff’s performance is therefore an increasingly important aspect of both business and human resources’...
Deep Work: How to Excel in an Increasingly Distracted World
Whether you work in an office or remotely, it seems that the number of distractions that we face in our daily lives is only increasing every day. As improved technology and continued innovation – particularly in the software space – has given us countless tools to use...
How to Create an Effective Onboarding Process for Remote and Hybrid Teams
Onboarding is an important aspect of any company that hires new employees. It helps staff feel welcomed and connected with other employees, and helps to set expectations. The onboarding process, if done correctly, can also impact your company’s ability to retain the...
Why Introverts Excel at Working Remotely
In many facets of life – both social and professional – extroverts are praised and often times also rewarded for their outgoing behavior and charisma. The traits associated with extroverts usually are seen as positive and those that should be celebrated as it portrays...
How to Manage Time-off and Public Holidays for Your Remote Team
If you manage a team of global nomads who are living in different cities and countries around the world, it can be a challenge to manage time-off and public holidays. Every country celebrates a different set of public holidays, and there are a myriad of cultural and...
The History of Remote Working
Many believe that we are in the beginning of paradigm shift of sorts, moving away from the traditional office workplace to a remote working oriented one. If this is the case, then the concept of the office as we know it, which is a relatively modern one, would have...
The Hybrid Work Model Increases Productivity, But It Can Be Improved Further
Companies with a rigid work structure and inflexible corporate hierarchy used to be not only the norm but entirely ubiquitous across industries and countries. But eventually, businesses began to change, but the change was extremely slow at first. The first documented...
The Future of Managing Remote Employees
The global pandemic has dramatically and rapidly changed the nature of work for many companies around the world. It has been a catalyst for a worldwide transition to remote work and hybrid work models in many sectors. Before the advent of COVID-19, many companies had...
12 Companies That Allow Their Employees to Work from Home Permanently
Many people in the business world from media pundits to the corporate elite believe that we have been slowly undergoing a paradigm shift in which working remotely becomes more commonplace. However, 2020 rapidly accelerated this. Some companies, like Twitter, already...
How to Create the Perfect Remote Work Policy
Major global shifts towards working remotely, means that many companies are transitioning quite rapidly to having a remote workforce. As a result, many companies haven’t had time to give thought to creating a remote working policy. Your company probably already has...
Why Your Company Needs A Head of Remote Work
With technology advancing at such a rapid rate, particularly in how we communicate with each other, it’s perhaps not very surprising that increasingly more companies are embracing remote work. However, since 2020 the timeline of the implementation of remote work...
Tips on Retaining Your Remote Staff
With the rise of remote working, and digital nomadism becoming a new norm, many employers are looking for ways to retain their remote staff. There is a large amount of effort that goes into hiring the best possible person for each job role. But once you’ve got new...
Switching to a Hybrid Work Model
Before 2020, remote working in any capacity was not a widespread occurrence. For most workers, it was rare or even not possible at all. But since then, there has been a paradigm shift regarding the standard office model. There was a realization across many industries...
What are the most Dangerous Traps to Avoid When Managing A Remote Team?
To be a successful manager or leader you must be able to simultaneously wear multiple hats. It’s no longer enough just to be the figurehead that gives orders with the expectations that your team will blindly and happily follow them. While this relic of a management...
Designing the Perfect Workstation at Home
Increasing numbers of people are transitioning to working from home, and knowing how to design the perfect workstation at home is now even more important. Whether you’re a digital nomad, remote worker, or your company is offering its employees the option of working...
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence for Remote Workers
Have you been in a conversation before where the other person talks and talks without giving much thought to you at all? And no matter how disinterested you are, or if perhaps you are preoccupied but still the person continues to talk – this person likely has low...
How To Set Goals With Remote Staff
Managers of remote staff who are dispersed across the world, need to find effective ways of setting goals and monitoring their achievement. Because technology has changed so rapidly and enabled the expansion of remote work, it’s becoming more commonplace to have teams...
How to Succeed in Your Remote Job Interview
Remote hiring is becoming commonplace around the world and remote workers (whether freelancers or remote employees) need to master the skills needed to succeed in remote job interviews. The job interview process starts from the minute you submit your application. You...
Tips for Successfully Recruiting Remote Staff
When you open your company up to recruiting remote workers from around the world, you benefit from widening the scope of your talent pool. Compared with fixed-location jobs, remote jobs can be done from anywhere in the world. That means the number of possible...
Why Team Building is so Important for Remote Staff
Whether your team consists of virtual nomads or people who work from a fixed location, it’s important that you invest time in managing, supporting, and developing your team. This is something that many companies neglect - either because they feel they are too busy, or...
14 Top Virtual Team Building Ideas for Remote Teams
If you manage a remote team of employees or freelancers, then you’re probably keen to find ways of keeping them motivated, connected and productive. Virtual team building events are a great way of doing just that. Team building also gives staff the chance to get to...
How to Transition to Remote Working
As 2020 showed us, way more jobs can be done remotely. It turned out that we continued on the 9-5 office grind just because it was considered the norm. While flexible hours are still being discussed (even though there are loads of benefits of flexible hours for both...
The 4 Most Popular Online Communication Tools for Video Conferencing in 2021 Reviewed
Whether you communicate for business or just for fun, nowadays the need to use online communication tools for video conferencing is unquestionable. We usually go with the one we know best. Yet, is it the best approach? Browsing some of the most popular tools for video...
14 Tips to Prevent Remote Working Burnout
For many people, being able to work remotely - and escaping the confines of a cubicle or open office - seems like a dream. It has been talked about as a way to boost job satisfaction, reduce stress, and even increase productivity. But what used to be seen as a perk is...
What is a digital nomad? 10 frequently asked questions
What comes to your mind when you hear the term “digital nomad”? Maybe a guy on the beach somewhere with his laptop? or a group of young people in a café-like place with their laptops Infront of them and they seem to be discussing business? Digital nomads and their...
4 Tips for Successfully Managing Remote Employees
With the emergence of pandemic (and even before that) remote working has become not just a trend, it's now rather a necessity for businesses worldwide. We all felt this dramatic transformation happening in the workplace. Employees had to switch to working from home...
Boost your Charisma on Video Calls with these 14 Tips
“Hello, hello can you hear me?” “I lost my connection” “Can you see me now?” How many times have you said any of these lines recently? Working remotely means that many, if not all, of your meetings are virtual. For many of us, this might not be our biggest comfort...
Covid Has Accelerated the Demand of Freelancers Worldwide
It is undeniable that COVID-19 has had a significant effect on the nature of work and the employment environment over the past year. As a response to mandatory lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, we saw international markets retreat, and employees experience a record...
5 Tips To Increase Productivity While Working Remotely
It is no secret that with the emerge of online jobs there has been a significant increase in the number of remote workers in the last decade: many employees have decided to work from home at least once or twice a week, while others went further and became digital...
How to structure your day as a remote entrepreneur
Working remotely can be tricky for a lot of people. You can get lost really easily when you don’t have to go to an office every day of the week. Actually, working remotely doesn’t really mean working from the beach 5 days per week. It’s quite different than most of...
Deep work: How to efficiently work in a world of distraction
Smartphone notifications, Social networks, calls, emails, Internet... We are living in a world of distraction. And this is a real issue for many of us. Being interrupted every 5 minutes considerably lower the performance of your brain and the value of your work. You...