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June 2021

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6 Ways to Support a Remote DevOps Team

Remote working is here to stay, so it's vital that businesses understand how to get the best out of their staff. For some roles, working remotely is easier than others - DevOps employees, for example, can face challenges if they're not fully supported within the organisation. In a distributed workforce, there's a higher risk of security issues and application problems, so it's crucial that organisations support them to keep the organisation running smoothly. Here are 6 ways to do just that.

How Small Businesses Use Employee Monitoring to Build Trust with Remote Teams and Boost Performance

When you think of employee monitoring, your brain may initially jump to large, controlling corporations patrolling their thousands of workers. In reality, this idea is simply a myth, as small businesses can use employee monitoring to build trust amongst their remote teams, boost productivity, increase operational efficiency and benefit employees in multiple ways.

Tips For Handling Stress in Your Remote Team

More than ever before, employees are working remotely as work-from-home culture becomes the norm due to global conditions. Though things will eventually shift back to in-person work, remote work has gained a firm and likely permanent foothold moving forward. Managing a remote team has a number of stark differences from managing in-person work, and one of the hardest things to address among your employees is stress.

5 insights from leaders transitioning teams back to the office

For many people, the shift to working from home meant finding new ways to work. In person meetings morphed into videoconferences. Events went virtual. And remote teams found new avenues to communicate, collaborate, support each other — and get all the work done, too. With pandemic conditions now improving in most of the world, many companies are exploring the best ways to transition workers from home back to the office.

Remote Employee Engagement: How To Keep Your Team Inspired

Over the past year, many companies have noticed that working remotely isn’t quite like working in the office. Remote employee engagement is more important now than ever before because working from home introduces new distractions and detachment. Remote employee engagement is complex, but far from impossible. In this post, we’ll dive into what remote employee engagement actually looks like. We will also cover how you can leverage it to strengthen your remote team.

How to manage a team of remote software developers

When you work with a term of remote software developers, there are many common challenges that managers face. One of the biggest hardships for them is to change their mindset. They need to accept that developers will not be in his/her plain sight. This all-new work paradigm demands businesses to come up with new, effective mechanisms. They need meticulously crafted strategies to track the progress of remote workers and eliminate unnecessary workload.

Why Management Must Encourage Work-Life Balance in Remote Work Environments

A solid work-life balance is an essential element of employee well-being. If you’re an employer, it’s something you should not only care about but actively encourage your employees to improve and maintain. Study after study has shown that an imbalance of work and life, a work-life conflict if you will, can have a serious negative impact on employees. In the office, it has been associated with poor workplace performance, reduced productivity, absenteeism, and burnout.

Remote developer adaptation process and time tracking

Today, the remote developer adaptation process is a reality for many of us. About 4.7 million employees work remotely in the U.S. That number is increasing day by day and more industries embrace remote work. Regardless of the industry type, people need to adapt to this work culture, and the sooner they transform, the better will be the results.

How To Keep Your Employees Connected and Engaged While Working Remotely

Between 2005 to 2017, there was a 159% increase in remote work. Even prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, remote work was growing at an exponential rate. This is due to the increased demand for flexible work schedules and recent advancements in technology. As a result of the pandemic, there was an additional surge of remote workers. Approximately half of the American workforce is currently working from home.

What to do if a remote developer keeps missing deadlines

In the computer programming world, missing deadlines may seem fine sometimes. But if it happens frequently, you may lose some valuable clients easily. However, managing and encouraging teams to stay within deadlines can be quite challenging. This is true, especially when your developers are working remotely. In this article, we’ll guide you about what to do if your remote developers miss deadlines consistently.

Tackling remote workforce security challenges post-pandemic

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations are adopting or experimenting with new models of long-term remote work. For some, that means keeping their teams fully distributed. For others, it means giving employees more flexibility to work from home or even simply putting plans in place for the future. But this shift to remote work brings new challenges that both large enterprises and smaller organizations must face.

10 Remote Work Influencers and Thought Leaders to Follow in 2021

In 2001, work was strictly in the office. You had your cubicle, your desktop, and your picture of your dog. At lunchtime, you’d share lunch with your coworkers. Sometimes, you had days where you brought your paperwork home, but the next day, you would go back to sitting at your Mac that looked like a space helmet. Let’s speed to two decades later, in 2021, where remote work is the cornerstone of businesses. 4.7 million Americans are working from home, according to the US Census Bureau.