Chatting, regular Skype calls, daily online stand-ups, weekly email reports – these serve well to organize work, but not to build a genuine allegiance. While managers struggle to maintain productivity and retain talents, employees become less connected with the company, hence, are more willing to accept other job proposals. Poor engagement is a big disturbance for shifting remote entirely.
But how to drive employees if you never meet them in person? With tech pioneers, like Twitter and Facebook, being in the frontier of a “let’s switch remote” slogan, smaller and/or local companies begin to rethink operations and launch out-of-office performances. Chief information officers from various companies declare that 72% of their subordinates regularly perform remotely. It is now predicted that by the end of 2021, the number of employees working from home will double.
However, during the last five years and especially after 2019, their fame has skyrocketed. “Remote” and “Agile” have long been commonplace – you won’t surprise anyone with these terms, indeed.
