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The Challenge and Difficulties of Remote Work

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  • agarwal, shekhar

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This research explores numerous remote work models now in use and includes suggestions for the supervision of remote employees' performance, the training of remote workers' supervisors, and the development of a culture that is compatible with distant work. We discovered that companies use remote work arrangements to recruit and retain the world's finest workers. Additionally, they compete locally for talent that is otherwise confined by location. Time and concentration are seen as more precious in distant work environments. Consequently, coordinating remote work teams need successful meetings and projects. Much more frequent performance appraisals of remote employees are conducted. Managers contact with remote employees more often, albeit for shorter periods of time. Instead, being compared to their coworkers on-site, remote employees are evaluated based on how successfully they completed tasks and reached goals. Managers oppose casual, face-to-face meetings. Information is rapidly disseminated across different technologies to improve awareness and concentration. On-site employees may regard remote work as an advantage that is unavailable to them. Companies exert considerable effort to establish cultural norms, and managers work together to eradicate these potentially poisonous attitudes. This study suggests determining which model of remote work best achieves the project or team's objectives, incorporating performance reviews into weekly conversations with remote workers, establishing and reinforcing technology, meeting, and collaborative effort norms that ensure success, and training managers and team leaders to keep meetings and projects well-organized.

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  • agarwal, shekhar, 2022. "The Challenge and Difficulties of Remote Work," OSF Preprints d67r3, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:d67r3
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/d67r3
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