According to a study by Gartner, 74% of CFOs expect a considerable part of their employees to work from home after the coronavirus lockdown ends.
Due to the corona outbreak, some companies have switched from a more traditional way of working to working from home, and it looks like their perspective is starting to change too. For example, Twitter’s Head of HR, Jennifer Christie, promised to reimburse employees for setting up their home offices:
Remote working is an opportunity for many companies to work sustainably, to reduce costs, focus more on their employees, and perhaps most importantly, provide the possibility to deal with unexpected events in the future.
Perhaps it’s too early to know exactly how people will work after the crisis, but business leaders have already thought about the advantages of a new operational model based on remote work and more flexibility.
Mike McLaughlin, chief information officer and vice president of professional services at Technologent, an Irvine, California-based solution provider said:
Remote work learnings from worldwide distributed companies
Companies who are already remote or “distributed” can provide valuable lessons and strategies for other organizations looking to start working remotely.
Toptal: writing the playbook on remote work
The world’s largest fully remote company, Toptal, shares insights and best practices for sustaining a remote company in The Suddenly Remote Playbook.
Toptal, a fully distributed workforce for over a decade, tries to help organizations face this new challenging reality. The company’s guide includes several recommendations on creating a values-based culture:
The playbook includes several helpful details on onboarding, career development, productivity, support and security, tools, and how to solve common problems when working remotely.
Automattic: setting the tone with employee values
At Automattic, a distributed company in 75 countries that speaks 93 different languages, remote workers use their own WordPress blogs, called P2, which replace emails. It’s also a way for employees to access every team’s documents and priorities. Automattic has also a creed, which is an embodiment of the most important employee values.
InVision: the culture of remote working
Another global business with employees in more than 20 countries, InVision’s main initiatives include bias training and utilizing a Diversion and Inclusion Committee to build equitability and inclusion for every remote employee.
The company’s ebook Remote Work for Design Teams includes best practices for running a remote design team and for how web designers can collaborate.
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