I haven’t always worked remotely, let alone in a virtual team. Dare I say that some twenty odd years ago, I was a corporate gal, in high heels and pencil skirts. I’d navigate the 15km traffic-filled stop-start drive to the office, park, sashay past the reception crew, and swipe my access card at the turnstiles.…
Imagine interviewing in your underwear, running on (falling off) the treadmill during a team all hands, getting your entire family to participate in a company-wide cartwheel challenge, or taking a virtual around-the-world trip at a team party. These are just some of the crazy benefits our fully virtual team has shared when it comes to…
It’s been over four years since our remote consulting team started exploring ways of using Zoom software to run effective virtual meetings. Our single biggest objective was to provide our customers with ease of use. Zoom was the best product we found on the market at the time that fit this criteria so we were…
While I absolutely do not make light of the COVID-19 pandemic, typing this post while in self-isolation as the world locks down and millions fight for their lives, I am sitting here on my back porch, pondering the irony of how an acute virus is forcing billions into remote work.
The Guide to a Fully Remote Workforce Remote work isn’t new. Millions of traditional companies of varying sizes, largely spurred on by their employees’ demands for a more flexible working environment, have shifted part or whole teams and/or divisions to some sort of remote work. (A pandemic has only added to the dynamic!) Global or…
