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…...
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…...
5 insights into building a culture with your remote teams
As more companies ponder the future of remote work, it’s going to be important to keep remote teams engaged with your business and brand. For the past 6 years, I’ve been a part of BKA Content, a award-winning company based in Utah, that has maintained a good reputation among its writers for…...
Remote Work Is Here To Stay
This has been a significant year of change across the globe, particularly in the workplace as we have all had to adapt and rethink our workforce strategies. As we look to find the answers to the right, wrong, and most effective ways to move forward in the new normal in…...
Key Management Skills for the Age of Remote Work
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted the nature of daily work for millions of Americans. While working remotely was a privilege enjoyed by relatively few pre-pandemic, Gallup has reported that just over half of Americans were “always” working remotely in April 2020 during the height of COVID workplace restrictions. That proportion has…...
Remote and the New Normal – Will it Continue?
Will Remote Working Become the New Normal? At its core, the coronavirus pandemic is a distinctly human crisis, and one that has caused more than 35 million cases and a little over one million deaths. However, it would be naive to underestimate the financial and socio-economic impact of Covid-19, which…...
The Future of Remote Work
Around the world and in every industry the future of work has changed dramatically. Some roles made an easy transition to remote work delivering significant benefits. Other roles were unable to work away from the workplace leading to furloughs and layoffs. Most office worker roles actually made a successful transition to…...
Future Of Work: What The Post-Pandemic Workplace Holds For Remote Workers’ Careers
What does the future hold for remote workers? And what will post-pandemic workdays look like—back to the office, working from home or a hybrid? While the light at the end of the tunnel seems within reach, companies across the globe are scrambling to create the future workplace. One way to…...
The future of remote work after COVID-19: 3 common predictions
The global spread of COVID-19 has led to a rapid shift of companies moving to working from home and relying on remote work tools now more than ever, in an effort to maintain business continuity. For many companies, this is the first time where teams are having to collaborate, operate…...
4 Important Steps in Building Successful Remote Teams
Remote work has become increasingly popular, especially since the pandemic and subsequent lock downs. These days the option to work from home has become one of the most desirable, heavily weighted benefits employees are looking for when evaluating job opportunities. It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year now…...
LinkedIn Data: Women, Gen Z More Likely to Apply to Remote Jobs
COVID-19 led to a remarkable increase in remote work. But as vaccinations ramp up, employers will soon have to decide whether they’ll continue to offer remote work arrangements once the pandemic has passed. As companies weigh the costs and benefits, there’s one factor that employers shouldn’t overlook: diversity. New data from…...
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…...
How to Stay Productive When Working From Home
You can be just as productive when working remotely – if not more so – but there are challenges as well as benefits. Working remotely is becoming a popular way to earn a living. Although there are many benefits to working from home, there are also many challenges. When you…...
How Remote Work Policies Encourage Diversity
Thanks to technology, more employees can work remotely from the comfort of their homes. And businesses are willing to make the change. About 69 percent of U.S. businesses now offer a flexible workplace policy, according to the 2019 IWG Workplace Survey. However, working from home can also be tied to…...
5 Ways You Can Contribute To Your Company’s Virtual Work Culture
Work culture is the experience you have that is based on what you see and hear while you are at work. It is a feeling that you have when you think about your coworkers and your work environment. That experience or feeling can be positive or negative, depending on how…...