Working Remotely

Remote Work Heightens Privacy and Security Anxiety Among Employees

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:27:28 -0500

Remote workers have higher anxiety levels about security and privacy than other types of employees, according to an international study released Tuesday by a cybersecurity software maker. In a survey by F-Secure of 7,200 people from nine countries, more than two-thirds (67 percent) of remote workers acknowledged...

How To Avoid Burnout

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:26:38 -0500

Tell us a little bit about yourself? Primarily I’m a catalyst for change through coaching. I find that coaching promotes a multitude of possible changes that open up whole new worlds for my clients. In most cases, I don’t need to specialise, I simply coach effectively. I do help people surmount tremendous obstacles like...

4 Ways to Incorporate Microbreaks into Your Work-from-Home Routine

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:08:43 -0500

The work we produce hasn’t changed radically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet where and how we work has been transformed—and the results haven’t always been favorable to our mental health. A Gallup poll from fall 2021 revealed that nearly half of American full-time employees worked remotely either some of the time or entirely. Additionally...

What Do We Lose in the Virtual Workplace?

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:29:31 -0500

In Ernest Cline’s 2011 science fiction novel Ready Player One, life is divided into two disparate experiences: the real and the virtual. The story is set in 2045, in a future beset by environmental, economic and social problems that leave its inhabitants spending time in a vast, highly-detailed virtual environment called OASIS. Entering OASIS with advanced VR visors and gloves allows users to...

2022 may be 'watershed moment' for company culture, LinkedIn says

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:06:30 -0500

Flexibility may be one of the key trends to shape 2022 for HR, sources told HR Dive, which means employers may need to get creative. Letting workers pick their...

Loneliness: How HR leaders can help teams move forward

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:27:30 -0500

The pandemic has kept people apart. What can HR leaders do to help reduce the impact of loneliness as we go forward?

Consider this: More than 40% of employees struggle with mental health issues, and pandemic restrictions left 54% of them feeling isolated.

We were already forming fewer friendships than in the past. Previously, as life got busier, our social network got smaller and smaller. Then, COVID hit. Never before has the entire world been subjected to such collective feelings of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and sorrow. Loneliness became pervasive.

Colleagues were no longer...

Managing A Remote Workforce

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:00:00 -0500

How we work is an idea that has undergone rapid and considerable change in recent years. One of the more prevalent changes has been a break from the traditional model of the nine-to-five office experience. In addition to increasingly flexible hours...

4 Ways to Motivate Your Remote Employees

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0400

The option for remote work is growing in popularity: it’s estimated that 3.9 million Americans work remotely, and that number is expected to continue to rise to...

The three-stage blueprint for “crafting” a flexible career

cassie@qz.com — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 02:00:00 -0400

In theory, flexibility is firmly on the agenda for companies that want employees to thrive. Work that can bend can help people...

3 Ways to Engage a Remote Workforce

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0400

In today’s digital age, more people than ever are working from home.

In fact, a recent survey revealed that 70 percent of professionals across the globe telecommute at least one day a week.

A remote workforce opens a business up to...

Are your teammates competent?

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0400

Do you trust your virtual team mates? I don’t mean would you leave your dog with them for the weekend (you don’t live near enough for that to be an issue.) I mean, do you trust them to put forth a lot of effort, do quality work, and meet deadlines?...

Exclusive: Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Working remotely can be really tough. To get some insight into how to do it better, Google conducted a two-year study involving data from 5,600 employees across the U.S., Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Approximately 30% of the company’s meetings involve...

The $5.4M cell phone reimbursement mistake this company made

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:00:00 -0400

Most days you may feel like employees’ cell phones are surgically attached to their hands – at their desks, in meetings, even in the company restroom! But beware: Those little devices can saddle you with a big legal bill.

How big? Try $5.4 million...

Five remote team new year's resolutions

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500

The new year is a great time to ask some fundamental questions about how your project team works together and what needs to change. It's not that there's anything special about January 1, except that

9 Best Practices To Master The New Performance Review

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Grab your slate chalkboard and jot this down: “The old performance management model is dead.” But of course you don’t own a slate chalkboard, because its time has come and gone. And just as it no longer makes sense to use an antiquated method to take notes...

Leadership In The Age Of A Remote Workforce

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:00:00 -0400

Today's managers must be prepared to lead remote employees and hybrid teams of onsite and offsite members, who may be working outside the office or located across time zones or countries. In a survey of 18,000 professionals globally...

How To Manage People In Different Time Zones

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:19:18 -0400

I grew up in the U.S. state of Colorado as part of a tight-knit community and studied psychology at university with the aim of becoming a clinical psychologist. I always wanted to help people be the best they could be, but after I graduated my career path changed trajectory. As I looked back years later...

Why Companies Should Rethink Their Approach To Freelancers

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Gone are the days when they can easily recruit and retain full-time employees to staff every project. When you look at the employment landscape, a lot has changed from even five years ago - and it's only going to change more over time. For starters...

Why Companies Should Rethink Their Approach To Freelancers

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 08:53:26 -0400

6 Hot Digital Transformation Trends - And 4 Going Cold

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 06:15:16 -0400

Digital transformation has moved beyond a nice-to-have to let's get cracking. Once a top priority for early adopters and cutting-edge enterprises, digital transformation has moved into the mainstream. Few would argue that digital transformation initiatives are vital to the success of their organization. In fact...

Trust And Leadership In The World Of Remote Work

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:05:53 -0400

Without trust, true leadership is impossible. Marissa Mayer, a rising star at Google, quickly learned this lesson when she became CEO of Yahoo in 2012. Trained as an engineer with a reputation for data-driven decision-making, one of her first major decisions irreversibly squandered whatever trust her considerable reputation as a superstar at Google commanded. One of Mayer's first major edicts at Yahoo...

Four Ways To Improve Your Focus When You Work From Home

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:42:00 -0500

If you want to get more done at work, consider staying at home. People who work remotely three to four days a week are more engaged with their work, according to Gallup's latest "State of the American Workplace" report. Gone are distractions like...

3 Ways IoT Can Drive Business Value

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:02:14 -0400

You can't escape the IoT momentum these days. The Internet of Things is being used for everything from saving the rhino from poaching to leveraging stray dogs to fight crime. (No, really, I'm not kidding... check the links!) But even as vendors spend billions to try and grab IoT market share, it's not always clear exactly how their business customers are supposed to...

Active Shooter Workplace Preparedness Planning

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:24:46 -0400

"Active shooter" attacks continue to grab headlines and create anxiety for us all. Recent tragedies include a hospital attack in New York, multiple killings at a UPS facility in San Francisco, and slayings at an Orlando factory and an Ohio nursing home. "It will never happen here," is not a strategy. Usually, it's NOT terrorism. In fact,...

8 Hot IT Hiring Trends - And 8 Going Cold

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:10:52 -0400

We're seeing a number of shifts this year in hiring as technologies mature, new ones emerge and companies work to cut costs by blending full-time IT staff with contract work. While some see the gig economy as a flexible new way to work, one that appeals to solo entrepreneurs, others see a general consequence of the Great Recession. Either way,...

Building Trust Remotely

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:38:18 -0400

Trust is one of the biggest challenges to working remotely. Do you trust that your people are working hard and smart or do you try to micromanage them? Does your boss leave you alone enough to get your work done but not so much that you suspect she forgets you exist? You work hard, but will the rest of the team have your back and meet their commitments?...

How Hackers Broke Equifax: Exploiting A Patchable Vulnerability

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:42:09 -0400

Equifax's terse explanation for its mega-breach in which 143 million Americans' information was put at risk was depressingly predictable: a vulnerability in a piece of web software. What was most depressing, though, was that the flaw was patched back in March. The specific vulnerability lay in Apache Struts, a framework for creating web applications written in Java. The flaw...

MPLS Or IPsec VPN: Which Is The Best?

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:38:20 -0400

Scouring the online IT forums, it's hard not to get sucked-in to all the talk about how MPLS is too expensive and can easily be replaced with high-bandwidth, fiber Internet circuits and an IPsec VPN. If you currently have an MPLS network,...

Equifax Hack -- How To Protect Your Credit And Identity If Your Data Was Compromised

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:18:41 -0400

As widely reported, the credit reporting bureau Equifax was recently hacked. If you have a credit report, you're likely one of the 143 million Americans whose data may have been exposed, according to the Federal Trade Commission. According to Equifax, the breach lasted more than a month, from mid-May until July of this year. The hackers gained access to people's names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and even some driver's license numbers. They also got credit card numbers for 209,000 people and dispute documents with personal information for 182,000 consumers. Unfortunately,...

Privacy Is Not An Option For Surviving In The Digital Age

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:46:49 -0400

"The issue of security and privacy is the defining issue of our age," said Art Coviello, former executive chairman of leading digital security firm RSA, adding, in ominous tones. "Whether we can solve it or not will determine if we are masters of the digital [era] or are its victims." For every great advance of human society,...