Companies are increasingly offering employees remote work, especially for roles that don’t require office presence (such as virtual assistants). The term “remote work” refers to an arrangement where your employee or team members work from a location outside of the company’s headquarters, usually at home or in a different space like a coworking environment.
Remote employees can work from anywhere they have access to internet. This could be in the comfort of their home in a coworking space or shared office space or even a cafe just down the street. Remote jobs typically rely on a suite of online tools like collaborative software, cloud-based files storage and management and conferencing applications video calling, and much more.
A well-planned onboarding procedure is vital to the success of remote workers, whether you’re onboarding as a remote team member for the first time or are a returning remote worker. This onboarding process must be able to cover both the technical as well as soft skills that your remote worker needs to succeed.
Remote workers offer many advantages to your company, aside from the obvious benefit of reducing expenses for overhead. The benefits include a more flexible schedule, increased productivity, and an engaged workforce. These benefits are mostly triggered by the fact that your employees spend less travelling and spend more time doing the job they were hired to do.