Companies are increasingly providing employees with remote work, especially for jobs that do not require an office presence (such as virtual assistants). The term “remote work” refers to a situation that allows your team or employee can work from an area outside of the office. This could be at your home or in coworking spaces.
Remote employees can work wherever they have access to the internet. This can be in the at home in the comfort of your own or at coworking or shared office space or even at an in-person café. Remote jobs usually depend on a set of online tools such as cloud-based software for collaboration, cloud-based file management and storage applications including video calling, and much more.
Whether you’re onboarding a new member of your remote team or an existing one, a well-planned onboarding process is crucial to the success of your remote workforce. This process of onboarding should be able to cover both the technical as well as soft skills that your remote worker requires to be successful.
Remote workers offer numerous benefits to your company, aside from the obvious benefit of the reduction of cost of overhead. Some of these benefits include an easier schedule, increased productivity, and an increased engagement of your workforce. These benefits are driven by the fact that your employees do not spend as much time commuting, and more time working on the actual work they were hired to do.