5 Ways To Overcome Challenges Of Remote Work

Introduction

Remote work has become the need of the hour during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 being a global health hazard has far-reaching effects even on the economy. To implement social distancing, companies are following three types of work modes viz., total shutdown, remote working, and employees of essential services working on-site with extreme care. Most companies and businesses to continue their operations have given their employees the option to work from home. 

Remote work has become an essential part of the business continuity plan for companies globally. This has also emerged as a challenge for companies having a lack of remote work policies or protocols in managing their employees.

Challenges of Remote Work

Often people complain regarding remote work because it results in sub-standard work. Let’s take a look at the primary hurdles for this:

• Lack of supervision: Most managers complain that due to lack of proper supervision often there is a loss of work. Without supervision, even employees struggle in maintaining the quality of work without guidance. Even tracking working hours is a challenge among teams.
• Lack of information: Employees often complain about a lack of information regarding a project from their manager. This causes a lot of time to be wasted in to and fro communication to get the necessary information
• Lack of attention: While working at home the attention is naturally divided among household activities unlike the focussed environment at the office. This is always challenging to ensure the quality of work 
  
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How to manage remote employees easily?
Remote work is not easy and managing employees remotely is even more difficult. But following 5 key measures, one may ensure productive remote work among employees.

• Daily check-ins: Companies may use office management systems to have remote clock-in. Also, teams should do a daily stand-up for the task assigned and completion. This will ensure the focus of employees towards the measurable goals assigned.
• Better communication tools to manage remote work: Organizations should have decent tools for written as well as video communication among teams for the smooth functioning of operations.
• Better project management tools: To ensure zero redundancy in the work project management tool is of utmost importance in the remote work. This gives a clear picture of the task assigned, the status of it and billables to a client. 
• Transparent work-flow: This is key for any organization for smooth operations that all policies, payroll, etc are openly shared across the teams.
• Build a happy work environment: The team must regularly talk apart from work as well to build a rapport and function like a family. Birthday celebrations and Work anniversaries should be a group celebration to involve everyone socially.

What you should do?

Employees must not feel neglected while working from home. Invest in the correct automation solution to derive maximum employee engagement on business avenues. Juntrax’s cloud-based platform facilitates managing and engaging remote employees working in multiple offices across the world. Use Juntrax to remove the pain away from employee management, timesheets, leaves, and payroll processing. Let us help you find more time for your core business activities by taking care of tasks that can be automated through our secured platform. 

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Crafted by Salman Shaikh