The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations around the world to digitize their workforces. As the pandemic continues and remote work becomes the new norm for many organizations, leaders who fail to effectively transition into the digital realm may struggle. However, there are steps they can take to adopt the increasingly…...
Remote Worker Monitoring: How To Track Productivity
Productivity is central to the growth of a business. Regardless of your industry and the kind of products or services you provide, if your workers are not productive in their roles, your business can experience negative consequences. Therefore, employers need to track the productivity of their teams. You can use…...
Has working remotely proven to be productive for both employees and the workplace or do the cons outweigh the pros? Let’s find out!
Between 2005 to 2017, there was a 159% increase in the remote workforce. In February 2020, that number was at 4.7 million, or 3.4% of the population and the number keeps rising daily. Whether you like it or not, the remote employee is here to stay. With the arrival…...
Sales & Marketing Service Level Agreements (SLAs): 7 Essential Components
Anyone can appreciate the value of a service level agreement (SLA), especially in the context of a customer-provider relationship. It’s virtually unthinkable to offer any kind of service without also providing contract details for customers. Take cable or cell phone service, for example. As consumers, we sign on the dotted…...
10 Trends for The Future of Remote Work for Small Businesses !
The Census Bureau reports that 36.9% of surveyed adults in the United States switched to remote work in some form, for at least part of their employment hours, during the pandemic. This shift to remote work affected so many and kicked off a number of changes to how we approach…...
How to Work From Home as a Salesperson: 9 Remote Sales Tips to Follow
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, professionals in nearly every industry have been forced to work from home in order to follow social distancing best practices. If you're a salesperson, this working arrangement has probably been a tough transition—making sales calls from your kitchen table while…...
Hiring Talent and Building the Right Culture with a Remote Team
It's been 18 months since the pandemic sent my team home from the office, which is now a permanent situation for many sales reps and managers in our industry. As a sales manager, the biggest challenge has been maintaining the same team culture we enjoyed pre-pandemic when you had daily…...
Remote workers complicate CFOs’ state sales tax compliance
Remote workers complicate CFOs' state sales tax compliance It takes just a single employee to create physical nexus in a state that would otherwise not generate a collection and remittance obligation. Each state calculates economic nexus differently, but many follow the lead of South Dakota, which filed, and won, the…...
New Era of Remote Working Calls for Modern Security Mindset!!
Last year saw a surge in cybercrime exploiting the various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote work, with ransomware attacks soaring by 150%.1 The Thales survey found the pandemic’s effects have had a significant impact on security infrastructure, particularly on access management and authentication frameworks, pushing organisations…...
Remote Recruitment
Managers can interview and onboard new employees from a distance during these unprecedented times. Many accounting and finance organizations have been forced to close their physical offices and conduct work remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and these companies have had to come up with new ways of hiring staff.…...
Identity Verification and Remote Hiring Amid COVID-19
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, an estimated 16 million U.S. knowledge workers shifted to working remotely, according to Slack. COVID-19 effectively ushered in a change that many predicted years ago: a world where remote work is prevalent. This was unprecedented and likely would not have been possible on such a massive…...
