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4 Best Practices for Managing Remote Teams
Remote work is here to stay.
Based on the 2021 Remote Work & Compensation Pulse Survey by Salary.com, 48% of employees have a desire to work fully remote and 44% favor a hybrid work model.
51% of employers who were surveyed support the hybrid work model, but only 5% are saying that a fully remote work setup will be an option. The reluctance of employers to adopt a fully remote workforce is not surprising. Many business leaders are still learning how to effectively manage remote teams over two years after the pandemic began.
In a Sungard AS survey among 200 North American Business leaders, only one in five companies (~21%) are fully confident that their infrastructure security can support long-term remote work. Additionally, research for Society for Human Resource Management (BBC Worklife) found that 72% of managers currently supervising remote teams would prefer to have all their people in the office.
Managing a virtual team demands new skill sets and tools, and what made the transition to remote work harder is that managers were thrown into it unprepared when the pandemic hit. As companies continue to shift, adjust and evolve to a more remote workforce, it helps to know the best practices for managing remote teams.
