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The future of work has arrived on the back of the coronavirus, COVID-19. On March 24th, NOBL hosted a daylong virtual conference to address the urgently changing nature of work featuring speakers from the NYTimes, Netflix, IBM, Intel, and others.

Managing a remote team is tough, but add to that pressurized conditions, heightened uncertainty, and an overall sense of dislocation and your job just got even harder. The author shares several tips for supporting continued learning and the emotional well-being of your employees. The advice includes resetting your expectations for when and how work gets done, staying in regular touch, assigning buddies or peer coaches, modeling optimism, and continually gauging stress levels.

As home to some of the world’s largest firms, China offers lessons for those that are just now starting to embrace the shift to remote working.

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Online meetings are not worse than in-person, and they can even be better in many ways, but they are definitely different.

At Zapier, we've been working remotely since the beginning. This guide shares everything we've learned about running a remote team.

If you’ve ever joined more than three people on a Skype or Zoom conference call, I hope you’ll appreciate these tips, and perhaps share them: Sit close to the screen. Your face should f…

Questionnaire for Individuals: Are You Ready to Work Remotely? When it comes to what makes for an ideal remote worker, the consensus is clear: remote working is not for everyone. Some crave the working-together energy of being around teammates, as well as the sense of connection. Some need the structure and nose-to-the-grindstone work environment of […]

Abstract Remote work offers a lot of great benefits to both organizations and teams: access to a larger talent pool, flexible schedules, the option to work in pajamas, and much more. So why ar…

Posts about Remote Working written by John Yorke

One of the most challenging aspects of a virtual meeting is keeping people’s attention. It’s important to be thoughtful about how you engage attendees. In the first minute of your meeting, help participants experience the problem you want them to solve by sharing statistics, anecdotes, or analogies that dramatize the issue. Then emphasize shared responsibility for solving it. Define a highly structured and brief task they can tackle in small groups of two or three people and give them a medium with which to communicate with one another (video conference, Slack channel, messaging platform, audio breakouts). Then have the groups report out. Never go longer than 5-10 minutes without giving the group another problem to solve. The key is to sustain a continual expectation of meaningful involvement so participants don’t retreat into an observer role. When that happens, you’ll have to work hard to bring them back.

With appropriate processes, virtual teams can even outperform their colocated counterparts.

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As Mark Kilby and I work through the images and text for the geographically distributed teams book, I wanted to clarify what collocated and distributed mean. Collocated teams sit near each other in space. However, not everyone agrees on what is “near.” In Developing Products in Half the Time, Smith and Reinertsen use the Allen … Understanding Distance for a Geographically Distributed Team Read More »

Many companies across the globe may need to shift to remote work, and quickly, given the growing concern over the coronavirus.

People who work remotely 4-5 days a week are more engaged than people who come into the office every day. https://t.co/jfNg3qJvpQ— Steve Magness (@stevemagness) May 20, 2019

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Ask these questions when you first start working with a remote employee, and on an ongoing basis to check to create the best employee experience.

With all that’s changed throughout the pandemic, what should people leaders expect this year? Find out Culture Amp’s top four predictions for 2022.

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In a quest to create the perfect remote team, Google researchers spent two years studying more than 5,000 employees. Here's what they learned.

Is it possible to keep your job and travel the world, too? These companies help professional nomads take a working gap year in places like Prague and Marrakesh.

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