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.
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? A tired but excited traveler, taking a video call while balancing his luggage in a coworking space? Or a group of young people in a café-like place with...
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...