Navigating Top Remote Work Challenges for Companies

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The pandemic-stricken world called for change. Workplaces were swiped with bedroom workstations, conference room meetings turned into online calls and colleagues were swiped with family or room members. Businesses have witnessed their employees enjoy a positive impact on their work-life balance in remote work setups. Apart from this, organizations have been conducting several kinds of studies to find out the benefits and drawbacks of remote work. Certainly, there have been some positive impacts but they have also realized it has not been an easy transition at the ground level.????

Optimizing workforce efficacy and productivity in remote setups is a challenge. Also, facilitating team coordination and communication is imperative. What challenges did the companies let's take a look into it:???

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Problems occurred with the remote workers:???

Productivity issues?

Work management is daunting while working from home as it hampers your concentration level, lack of supervision, and time management as well.???

Solutions??

Solve remote employee supervision issues by integrating tools for real-time screenshots to monitor employee activity during work hours. Use TeamTrace time tracker to calculate the total work hours and individual hours spent for every assigned ticket.???

• Multitasking can reduce the productivity level so make sure you are working only on the priority tasks at first.???
• Start working with short deadlines to keep focus on a higher level.???
• Take short breaks in between. Working continuously for long hours can increase stress and pressure.???

Outer distractions??

Distractions are one of the most common problems for employees while working from home. It kills productivity as well as efficacy and turns into a nightmare for remote workers.???

Solutions???

As a solution they can easily switch locations from personal rooms to cafes or any quiet place the workers feel comfortable to work. If you are working from your own room then make sure the place is minimal, tidy, and practical.???

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Lack of motivation???

Due to no supervision, the motivational issue remains one of the most common remote work challenges. With no presence of a supervisor or team members, the workplace around feels doomed and loneliness hits the workers hard.????

Solutions???

As a part of the remote working team, it is important for the employees to stay motivated. The management should organize team meet-ups and make sure the teams work collectively towards accomplishing the common goal.???

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Maintaining work and personal life barrier????

Remote work sometimes gets heavier to maintain the line between work and personal life due to no bound of work hours. Anytime anywhere work can come up and organizations fail to track the work patterns of the employees.???

Solutions???

TeamTrace work pattern tracker can make sure when the employees are working, their log-in time, and peak hours of working.???

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Stress due to overworking???

Overworking is quite common in remote setups as it lacks the separation between work and home life. Often it becomes challenging for the employees to disconnect from work at the right time which often leads to overworking.???

Solutions???

Shift the goals away from hourly productivity hours to the outcome of the assigned tasks. The organizations try out to judge people based on their accomplishments instead of productivity metrics like keyboard activity. TeamTrace offers the feature of tracking the activity level of the remote workforce based on real-time work outcomes.???

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Project and task management???

While your workforce is remote one of the key challenges faced is managing and coordinating projects and tasks. Choose your project management and task management for remote employees software wisely. For tasks or projects every employee works on the same goal and without clear communication misunderstanding among employees can arise.???

Solutions???

Bring project and task management to one platform. Reduce the hazards of shifting from one software to another just to track projects and tasks. With TeamTrace track not only at project levels but also the departmental tasks and activity.???

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Time zone differences???

Most of the organizations also face the issue of physical location and time of the employees. It is more critical while working with international teams.???

Solutions??

Companies can set work hours that overlap both the team's time making a common timeline for all. Also, offering flexible and rotating shifts for all the employees can help more.???

With the changing landscape of work infrastructure companies trying to overcome the challenges of remote work. The mentioned issues can resolved by leveraging the correct technology and establishing proper work methods. What were the most common remote work challenges your organization faced? Share with us in the comments below.???