If you’re like many employers, you’ve probably already made the transition involved in allowing at least some of your employees to work from home. But making that transition, and adjusting to managing a remote team rather than an on-site workforce, is only half the battle. The other half comes when it’s time to fill remote job vacancies. How do you choose which workers are best suited for telecommuting?

Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, when so many businesses were enabling their employees to work from home, some employers are still hesitant. Whether that’s due to concerns over employee productivity, uncertainty of how to set up staff members to work remotely, or any number of other reasons, some company executives are still not comfortable with their employees telecommuting. If you’re one of those, we’ve written this article for you.

Remote work has taken the world by storm since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. Workers who had never before experienced fully remote jobs were expected to conform to this “new normal.” And while it might have been hard at first for some employees, the vast majority did adjust and actually came to embrace working from home full-time.

Since the global pandemic started in early 2020, millions of employees around the globe have been working from the comfort of their own homes. What once seemed to be foreign now feels completely normal – so much so, in fact, that a lot of people would now actually prefer to work from home as opposed to traveling back and forth to an office each day.

The COVID-19 pandemic greatly changed the way many Americans work. The exponential increase in remote work opportunities and the number of people that work from home was unlike anything most of us have seen in our lifetimes. And now, as the access to safe and effective vaccines increases and the U.S. begins to return to “normal,” it’s understandable that our work situations would once again start to evolve.

There’s no doubt about it: COVID 19 has changed the way we live in so many ways. Not the least of those is how we work. Since the beginning of the pandemic, countless employers from all around the US and the world have allowed their employees to work from home.

Even in the best of circumstances – like working with an already-established team in a traditional office environment, for example – leading a team comes with some challenges. But when your team members are scattered across a variety of different locations, successfully leading that group of people can be especially challenging. Fortunately, there are some strategies you can use to overcome those issues and ensure the success of your team.

Anyone who has managed or led the activities of a team in a workplace knows all too well how challenging it can be to improve the work performance of that team. Thankfully, there are some standard methods to use if you’re in a typical office environment – methods such as regular team meetings, in-person team-building exercises, recognition of individual efforts in meeting settings, and establishing a positive work environment, for example.

Beginning in early 2020, when COVID-19 shutdowns began in earnest throughout the US, many companies started to allow their employees to work remotely. This was not necessarily a gesture of goodwill to loyal workers – instead, it was an absolute necessity in order to maintain businesses through what is arguably one of the most challenging times that this country has ever faced.

Over the past 12 months, thanks in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become increasingly common for employees throughout the US and the entire globe. Although most of us automatically assume that anyone “working remotely” must be working from home, that assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact is that people work remotely from a variety of different locations.