Dennis Dix August 24, 2020 In short, yes. As the world has quickly changed in recent months, most of us are working from home, and this is one of the top questions we’re hearing from our policyholders. Remote and telecommuting workers are typically covered under workers’ compensation laws if the injury arises out of and … Continue reading Do I Need Workers’ Comp Insurance for Remote Workers?
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3 Warning Signs That Your Remote Workers Are Underperforming
Andrew Zola August 21, 2020 Peggy_Marco / Pixabay In recent years remote working has grown from strength to strength. After COVID-19, it’s now almost the norm. In fact, Time called the corona outbreak, “the World’s Largest Work-From-Home Experiment.” However, not everyone has found this transition smooth. If your team continues to work from home, you’ll … Continue reading 3 Warning Signs That Your Remote Workers Are Underperforming
3 Solutions to Effectively Engage Your Deskless Workers
Vinod Janapala July 15, 2020 About 2.7 billion professionals or 80% of the global workforce is made up of the deskless workforce. If employers are ignoring their deskless workers, then they need to be ready to battle massive losses in productivity share and additional costs incurred when having to replace disengaged workers who jump ship. … Continue reading 3 Solutions to Effectively Engage Your Deskless Workers
WFH digital marketers and tech workers are more productive — and burned out
Opportunities and challenges abound in the new WFH economy. Greg Sterling on July 9, 2020 Working from home (WFH) is one of the major long-term economic and cultural shifts that will be with us long after the pandemic. Initially forced by COVID-19 to implement WFH policies, many companies are now making WFH a permanent option, … Continue reading WFH digital marketers and tech workers are more productive — and burned out
How to Engage Frontline Workers With Digital Workplace Solutions
Sebastien Ricard July 10, 2020 When you think of the digital workplace, you probably picture office workers with fancy new tech tools, webcams and innovative software. It’s true that digital transformations have mostly been designated to these corporate positions, but frontline workers can see major benefits from these initiatives as well. Estimated to make up … Continue reading How to Engage Frontline Workers With Digital Workplace Solutions
How to Tackle the Challenges of Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce: 2 Challenges (and Advantages) to Managing a Call Center Composed of Workers Across Different Generations
Laura Krajewski June 25, 2020 You’re in a meeting with some co-workers and one of the older team members in the room says “Daaaa Bearsss!” A rise of laughter erupts from a handful of other employees. Several of the younger employees give polite smirks while looking clearly out of the loop. Then someone says, “Haven’t … Continue reading How to Tackle the Challenges of Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce: 2 Challenges (and Advantages) to Managing a Call Center Composed of Workers Across Different Generations
5 Tips for Recruiting Remote Workers
Eric Termuende — June 8, 2020 The dominos are starting to fall as companies across the world are making the announcement: remote work is here to stay. With giants like Twitter, Square, Facebook, and Microsoft leading the way, distributed teams could be 100 percent virtual and (if it happens at all) it could take months … Continue reading 5 Tips for Recruiting Remote Workers
3 Ways to Encourage Remote Workers to Create Work-Life Balance During COVID-19
Deborah Sweeney — May 22, 2020 As COVID-19 continues, leaders are getting creative in their efforts to engage and connect with remote employees. Many teams participate in Zoom happy hours; respond to fun questions posted in Slack, and join in email threads featuring funny memes and GIFs. What makes this particular era of remote work … Continue reading 3 Ways to Encourage Remote Workers to Create Work-Life Balance During COVID-19
4 Tips From a Manager of Remote Workers
Jody Glidden — April 3, 2020 Between 2005 and 2017, there was a 159% growth in remote work across the United States. Today, about 4.7 million US workers spend at least some of their workweek working remotely — a number that’s rising daily in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak (novel coronavirus 2019). If you’ve … Continue reading 4 Tips From a Manager of Remote Workers
Why Remote Workers Are Actually More Productive
Sam McCue — January 30, 2020 “Oh, you work from home? That must be nice.” This is a phrase that, arguably, all remote workers have heard during their tenure. If I had a quarter for every time I’ve heard this phrase after telling someone I work remotely, I would be halfway to a month’s rent … Continue reading Why Remote Workers Are Actually More Productive