AI is absorbing the parts of your team’s work that used to prove someone was doing their job. If you manage a distributed team, that leaves a real question: what do you actually measure now, and how do you know it’s true? The location debate is already settled. US remote work has held steady at around 27% of the workforce for three years running, according to figures Liam Martin, co-founder of Time Doctor, cited in his opening keynote at Running Remote 2026.