While going through my LinkedIn thread today, I found this article, and discovered that it succinctly tells what’s needed for an effective and positive experience in having a remote workplace:
How Can a Company That is Largely Remote Be a Great Place to Work? by Carlos N. Escutia
The author, Carlos N. Escutia, makes his main point that it’s not about location that matters, but rather how you communicate and work as a team. Based on my own experiences of working remotely for most of the past ten years, I agree with his perspective, and his approach to how leadership demands are different, yet the same as if you are in an office. The idea is that trust is a big part of things, and feeling connected to what you do and who you work with matters more than the physical location. I have found that to be very true. Over the years, I had developed some great working relationships with people I’d never met in person. Why? Because we kept our lines of communication open, discussed things with each other as frankly as we would had we been in the office–sometimes more so because we didn’t have to worry whether our conversations were private or not–and having people who were dedicated to the work that would put their full effort in.
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Danielle M. Villegas is a technical communicator who currently employed at Cox Automotive, Inc., and freelances as her own technical communications consultancy, Dair Communications. She has worked at the International Refugee Committee, MetLife, Novo Nordisk, BASF North America, Merck, and Deloitte, with a background in content strategy, web content management, social media, project management, e-learning, and client services. Danielle is best known in the technical communications world for her blog, TechCommGeekMom.com, which has continued to flourish since it was launched during her graduate studies at NJIT in 2012. She has presented webinars and seminars for Adobe, the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the IEEE ProComm, TCUK (ISTC) and at Drexel University’s eLearning Conference. She has written articles for the STC Intercom, STC Notebook, the Content Rules blog, and The Content Wrangler as well. She is very active in the STC, as a former chapter president for the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter, and is currently serving on three STC Board committees. You can learn more about Danielle on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/daniellemvillegas, on Twitter @techcommgeekmom, or through her blog.
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My key takeaway that it’s not all that different from doing it in the office.