Ultimate guide to work from home resources
If your employees work from home or remotely, this guide will help you manage your team more effectively, boost productivity, and improve employee engagement.
You will learn how to set up a quality home office, which tools to use, how to keep employees engaged and productive, how to hire and manage remote employees, and best practices for communicating with your remote team.
We identified early the trend to hire remote employees and created HiveDesk to help businesses that hire remote workers. Over the years, we have learned quite a bit about managing a remote team from our customers as well as our own team. We created this guide to share that knowledge with you.
We have divided the guide into three sections:
- Getting started with WFH / remote work
- Hiring and managing a remote team
- Best practices for working from home
Getting started with work from home
These resources will help you set up the ideal work from home workspace, tools, and processes.
- How to set up an ideal work from home workspace — A guide to choosing the right location, furniture, hardware, internet, and software for your home office.
- Toolkit for managing remote employees — A comparison of popular tools for time tracking, project management, communication, and collaboration.
Hiring and managing a remote team
These resources will help you hire the right people and manage them effectively.
- Hiring remote employees for your business — A three-step process for creating the ideal candidate profile, sourcing applicants, and making the hire.
- Challenges of managing remote employees — Common challenges like time zones, communication gaps, and priority mismatches — and how to overcome them.
- Monitoring remote employees — How to track input, measure productivity, and monitor effectiveness of remote workers.
- How to measure productivity of remote employees — 8 proven methods for measuring the productivity of work-from-home and remote employees.
- How to engage remote employees — Strategies for keeping remote workers connected, motivated, and engaged with the team.
- Mastering remote team communication — How to build effective communication practices for distributed teams.
Best practices for working from home
A collection of articles on proven practices for staying productive and healthy while working from home.
- 9 work from home best practices — From following a set schedule to managing output over activity, these practices help both individuals and teams.
- 5 keys to improve productivity of remote teams — Practical tips for managers to get the best out of their remote teams.
