It's 2021, and businesses are no longer keeping social concerns outside of the workplace. Instead, many are trying to be inclusive and are actively planning for diversity in the workplace. Diversity comes in many guises. It means to be inclusive of a person irrespective of their race, age, gender, ethnicity, disability, or other aspects. Remote work has enabled a unique … [Read more...]
What Nobody Says About Inclusion on Remote Teams
Prior to the COVID pandemic, there was a movement afoot to intentionally enhance diversity and inclusion in organizations. For many companies, those efforts then took a back seat to just staying in business, helping existing employees work remotely and keeping the business afloat. Now, as they take a longer view, they are once again thinking about how to create workplaces that … [Read more...]
Onboarding New Hires in a Remote World
Much of what you’re hearing right now about remote work has focused on people who used to go into the office or plant every day and now find themselves working from home. Mostly, we are working with our same colleagues, just physically distant. But as this pandemic drags into the fifth month a lot of people are—willingly or not—changing jobs and joining new teams. A growing … [Read more...]
Three Ways for Companies to Implement Remote Training and Onboarding Systems During and Beyond COVID-19
By Nicholas Wyman, CEO IWSI America Since the March 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, countless companies have expanded telecommuting and remote working situations (many for the first time), relying on IT networks and tools such as Zoom and Slack. Practically overnight, necessity has demanded that our work processes adapt to this new distributed work model. … [Read more...]
5 Wrong Assumptions HR Makes about Remote Work
I feel sorry for HR people. They are responsible for the least predictable and most combustible resource a company has: human beings. They are often the last to be consulted when a business problem faces a company and the first to be called on for answers. This is true when it comes to setting remote work policy for your company. We’ve said many times that remote work and … [Read more...]