远程工作：我们面临的新挑战以及 ConveyThis 如何提供帮助

远程工作对我们中的一些人来说是一个梦想，而对其他人则是一个完整的挑战。对于大多数正在考虑职业转变或从办公室转到家庭办公室的企业来说，这是当前的现实，这正是当前大流行情况使我们考虑了几个月。尽管并非每家企业都适合这种工作方法，但仍有无数企业从其本地办公室迁移到多个平台，以寻找其他选择，以避免对他们及其员工造成灾难性的后果。

作为员工，挑战来自新的日程安排，新的家庭办公空间，能够管理您在办公室获得的信息和任务的数量，与团队，同事，主管，经理或客户保持联系，花费更多有时间在家做日常工作。从业务经理的角度来看，这并不简单，您不仅需要保持销售产品或服务的注意力，还需要与员工保持联系，保持联系，保持网站更新并与之互动。潜在客户以及您创建的家庭办公室中发生的所有事情，以尽最大可能管理这种情况。

作为您业务的领导者，支持团队必不可少，始终让他们觉得您在那里可以随时告知他们，并在他们需要您指导的情况下，这是在大多数情况下激励他们的最佳方法。首先，您会感到有些不舒服，您在促进团队中的良好能量并保持业务发展方面发挥了重要作用。

因此，既然许多人已经成功地尝试了远程工作，那么，如果您打算将这种远程工作策略应用于您的业务，那么对您来说，了解员工可能面临的挑战就很重要，这是代表最常见情况的一些情况对工人的挑战：

–团队互动。当您习惯与团队共享每一天时，缺乏互动会使您感到与世隔绝。

–信息的获取肯定受到办公室缺乏实时通信的影响，有时，并非每个员工都精通计算机，而技术本身也构成了挑战。

–由于办公室缺乏日常互动，或者由于缺乏日常互动而感到孤独或孤单是很普遍的，大多数员工在与他人互动时执行任务，使远程工作变得有些压力。

–家庭分心很常见，因为他们总是很想将注意力集中在孩子，电视，宠物上，这当然会影响他们的生产力。

–由于计划表组织不健康而导致的过度工作，因为有时员工可能会比预期的工作时间更长，因为他们专注于任务而忘记休息。

尽管这听起来似乎很有挑战性，但是如果我们知道如何找到合适的资源来从家庭办公室中获得最佳性能，那么远程工作就可以像在办公室工作一样富有成效，以下提示可以帮助您简化这一过程：

当连接是关键时，沟通就是工作的一切。

如前所述，沟通在提高员工的工作效率方面起着重要的作用，它与我们的业务成功直接相关，这就是为什么在远程工作时，找到与您的团队进行沟通的正确平台至关重要的原因。

有很多优秀的平台可以提供聊天应用程序，任务管理或视频会议工具，这一切都取决于您的要求和需求，请确保您让团队知道不要将企业帐户与个人帐户混合使用，当然，为避免员工对此新技术感到焦虑，重要的是要根据您选择的平台提供适当的培训。这些平台是：Google Hangouts，Slack，Trello，Asana，Dropbox，Google Drive，Zoom，Skype，仅举几个例子。

Now that you chose the right platform, you may wonder “How do I keep track of my team?”, regardless the fact that you are all working remotely, the idea of improving communication is not only to send messages or emails with the guidelines for a specific task, you should be able to listen to your employees as well as track how they feel and exchange ideas through conferences or discussions on your chosen platform that would lead to more and better productivity.

Some experts would say these meetings could be scheduled on a weekly basis, since they will help the team feels in their office routine, the everyday dynamic would be recreated by these meetings, providing your employees, the motivation they need and improving their time management.
Since you will be in charge of the business and the staff, as every good leader, you will probably want to include your team in decisions you make. It is important to get feedback from your employees as well as giving them the chance to be in charge of projects and share ideas to promote alternatives in future tasks, employees as a source of infinite creativity are your best allies to give a different direction, a different approach to your business plan, so far from ignoring their opinions, it is worthy to listen to them and support them if needed, this is a good way to promote career growth in the company.

As part of your business plan, there is a very important aspect that would probably attract your employees to join the company, no matter if your remote work is temporary or an established position, as every company, yours may have a culture you must keep, define your values and let your staff know about it, this could also be one of the topics of one of the weekly conferences with them, ask for new ideas to improve your culture or simply discuss your core values, this would help employees create a sense of belonging with the company.

It is well known that although the team is working remotely, the common goal would be productivity but as it was previously mentioned, building a strong link, building trust, motivation, and creating space for consistent communication would help all of us in the process of achieving our common goal.

It is important to remember that socializing is part of human nature which means that setting some social events would definitely motivate our team, taking some breaks along the day would be healthy to avoid the risk of overwork. You may wonder how to set a social event when the current conditions aren’t the appropriate ones, well, in this case, the platform chosen for work conferences would be ideal for a morning coffee break or a happy hour on Friday, team games and what comes from your team creativity is possibly a good idea to promote this important social time.

When you realize how important it is to care about your employees when the team is working remotely, you probably understand that not all conversations got to be business related, this is a good chance for you to build a different type of connection with your staff. To get to know them better, they are supposed to get to know you better too, so break that barrier of the untouchable boss and perform your leader role by showing them you care about them, here is where words of motivation and encouragement work perfectly.

Employees always have a reason “why”: to stay at the company they work for, whether it is learning a new skill, working on the area they love, a good organizational environment or just because they are paid well. Along the years they stay in the company, they work hard to achieve personal and professional goals, their talent, experience and time could be noticed and valued somewhere else if you don’t reward them for their hard work, this is why at times it is necessary to express your gratitude with gift-cards, bonuses, discounts and many other strategies that will build commitment and improve your productivity.

毫无疑问，由于目前的情况，大多数行业都试图从办公室迁移到家庭办公室，即使情况并非如此，那些选择远程工作的人也面临着一些挑战。从感到孤立、分心、不舒服、适应全新的日常工作动态，到适应新技术、应用程序、平台甚至公司软件，这些将使他们能够积极参与并提高公司的生产力。当我们都习惯了这种新的工作方法并每天都在学习它时，作为团队领导者，在促进积极性、参与度、承诺和良好成果方面，需要牢记技术和社会方面，在这种情况下，您将负责您的团队，并且必须学习如何有效地管理您业务的所有方面，包括您如何监督和奖励您的团队的出色工作。