Employers just don’t seem to get it

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It’s a yes or no question
There seems to be the attitude that working from home is either all or nothing; either employees work from home full-time, or they come into the office. Either every department works remotely, or none does. The truth is that there are some roles that are much more suited to distance working than others, but that most roles can be carried out from home at least part of the time.



There’s no virtual in team
How can you build a team, when people don’t really see each other? If you’re not lithuania phone number resource bumping into each other at the coffee machine or killing time in a meeting waiting for that one person who’s always later, how do you forge relationships? Michael Ortner, CEO of Capterra, says that ‘a company is nothing but its people and its culture’ and considers telecommuting to be dangerous.

Although it’s true that creating a virtual team is different to fostering camaraderie in person, it’s not impossible. There are strategies that help to foster a sense of belonging to virtual teams, even those that span sites, and even continents.



Even though study after study shows the benefits of allowing employees to work from home, at least some of the time, employers just seem to have an inbuilt resistance. It’s not a technological issue, with cloud-based solutions and software as a service taking off, remote employees can easily and securely access the services they need to if they can connect to the internet. The benefits are clean and tangible, and yet there is a great reluctance; as though no matter how many studies show increased productivity, the CEO or people in HR just can’t get past the idea that you might be less productive, slacking off to play video games rather than staying on-task.