Top Remote Work Frustrations and Methods to Resolve Them

The world is going through a turmoil created by the pandemic, namely Corona-virus. The world economy has experienced a drastic jolt because various companies, industries, businesses, offices, and every economic activity have come to a halt. This sudden change has introduced this world with a new working culture, and it is called Work from Home or Remote Working Culture.

In the present time, according to Global Workplace Analytics, the number of people who work from home has increased by 140% since 2005. According to a survey by Up Work, it is expected that by the year 2028, 73% of all departments will have remote workers.

Businesses are continuously allowing their employees to work remotely, and employees are embracing this change with all open arms because there is no soul-crushing commute, no managers or co-workers hanging over your shoulder and no distraction. The benefits of work from home are unlimited, and we will tell you that later in this blog. But the reason why we have penned down this post is to bring to you the basic yet significant challenges that an employee faces while working remotely.

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# Let’s dive deeper and learn the remote work frustrations and the methods to revolve them.

1) Sloppy Internet Speed: -

This is one of the most common problems that an employee faces while working remotely. The network is not fast enough, and due to which it often happens that your connection is stuck at the time of an important meeting, or you lose connection while discussing an important issue.

No need to test your patience now, you simply can choose an upgraded internet plan to avoid all kinds of jolts, and to overcome the challenge of slow internet connection or loss of internet connection in some cases.

2) Work Burden: -

When you work from home, it becomes hard to choose between your personal life and official life. Managers often don’t want their subordinates to work remotely due to lack of productivity.

But, there’s a stark difference when it comes to reality. Remote workers tend to overwork which leads them to a never-ending work mode, and such situations will be excessively exhausting.

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# You can overcome the burden overwork by following the given steps:

●     Set a clear start and the end time for you to work.

●     Set up reminders to take small breaks in between.

●     Mark your calendar with all important meetings and work.

●     Always be clear with your team on when you are leaving for the day.

●     Maintain the physical boundaries between you and your workplace.

●     Turn off notification on your phone & computer so that you’d not get pulled back into work after hours.

3) Communication Barrier: -

When it comes to the mobile work environment, communication is obviously a challenge. By communication, we not only meant hallway conversation or quick in-office chats. Our intent is deeper than that. In work from home culture, it often happens that when a manager messages an employee, one might take that message in negative intent. The message could be any, a critique, feedback, or a question, etc. There are chances of miscommunication.

To avoid the challenges that occur because of miscommunication, you should always stay in contact with your manager and co-workers over the phone. If you feel that something is not right in the message, then you should always call the concerned person, and clarify your doubts instead of keeping grudges because of miscommunication.

4) Work Prioritization: -

When you work in office culture, you can have all your work strategist as per your communication with your colleagues. In remote work culture, prioritizing your work may become a daunting task. While working from home, one has to be extra cautious and self-motivated to keep all the work streamline.

There are some companies who overburden their employees with extra work just because they are working from home, but they forget that overburdening employees will only lead to lower productivity and higher frustration rate.

To avoid all challenges that occur because of lack of work prioritization, the foremost thing that you should do is to complete the biggest and the most important task which cannot be procrastinated.

Secondly, and most importantly, you should limit the number of tasks you plan to perform each day. You should learn the art of managing your energy, not your time. It means that you should learn to tackle your task according to the level of energy you have during a day.

5) Trust Building: -

While working at the office, you perform your task directly under the supervision of your manager. The manager can call you anytime, and ask you about the status of your task. #In remote working culture, one of the major challenges that both employees and employers face is the trust issue.

It is difficult to build trust among your colleagues and managers. Managers worry that employees aren’t performing their work, or they aren’t completing their task on time. Whereas employees worry about their performance level and productivity, and to maintain both, performance level and productivity employees face frustrations.

The best way to build trust is to set your expectations with the manager and let managers set their expectations with you at the initial level. In this way both the parties are aware of what they have to deliver and what to expect.

# Major Advantages of Working Remotely:

In the past few months, many companies have allowed their workers to work from home. It has opened a new way for a modern working culture. We have research on the benefits of remote working, and we found that 75% of people admit that working from home is much better because there is less distraction.

The numbers of people are 76%, who are willing to stay with their current employer if they could work remotely. You would be shocked to know that 86% of people feel that remote working reduces their stress level. Work from home not only lets them stay near their family but also help them to work more effectively and productively while staying with their near ones.

Talking about millennial's, about 69% of them are ready to give up other work benefits for work from home. Remote working culture is also beneficial from companies' point of view. The companies that allow work from home have a 25% lower employee turnover rate than those that don’t.

Whether companies should allow remote working culture or not, the topic is debatable. We agree that there are some challenges which employees face while working from home. But we also cannot simply deny the ultimate benefits which come with it.

Therefore, to give you a clear picture, we have discussed both, the challenges & frustration, as well as the benefits of remote working. We hope, now you have learned the top remote work frustrations and the methods to resolve them.

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