5 Ways to Ensure Your Remote Workers Will Succeed
Ask any employer and he will tell you that the key to a successful company is a happy, unified, and productive workforce. After all, when employees are unhappy and disengaged from their jobs, the...
View ArticleChallenges of Working Remote and How to Beat Them
Being a remote worker has its advantages. No commuting, more time to get errands done, better productivity and more. But there are some challenges that a full or part-time remote worker has to accept...
View ArticlePros and Cons of the New Era of Telework
Recently, PGi conducted a survey of knowledge workers around the world on the subject of telecommuting. Out of over 3,000 workers surveyed, an overwhelming majority (79%) have the opportunity to work...
View ArticleThe Life of a Digital Nomad: 4 Tips for a Better Life
If your job requires a lot of travel time, then you know the challenges you face when it comes to working remote. Where it’s staying connected, trying to access files, or sometimes, just finding a...
View ArticleCustomer Insight Series: A Lesson on the Benefits of Telework
At PGi, we love insights—especially those from our customers. We love learning more about what their daily lives as knowledge workers are like, how they use collaboration technology and more....
View ArticleNew Flexible Work Policy? How to Get Your Team on Board
Even though your company plans on sticking with its brick-and-mortar roots, it wants to adopt a more modern way of conducting business. One of the ways it plans to achieve that is by adopting a...
View Article3 Tips for Convincing Your Company’s Leadership to Embrace Flexible Work Options
For weeks (or maybe even months), you’ve been regaling your boss with the many benefits of remote work. But as much as you’ve been trying to get him to adopt a more flexible work mindset, he’s still...
View ArticleProviding a Collaborative Edge for Remote and In-Person Teams
Flexible and remote work are both on the rise, and as a result it’s easy to see why there’s so much business demand for collaboration solutions, such as web and video conferencing and online team...
View ArticleHow to Build Trust on Virtual Teams
Remember the trust falls you used to do as a team-building exercise at summer camp? Now imagine the people catching you in a trust fall are people you’ve never met in real life. You probably wouldn’t...
View Article7 Myths of Remote Work, Debunked
As telecommuting grows in popularity and prevalence, the misconceptions and myths associated with telecommuting grow as well. If you’ve never worked remotely, you might not be able to discern fact from...
View Article7 Home Office Essentials You Can’t Live Without
When it comes to working from home, your environment can have a marked effect on your ability to be productive. The good news is that you don’t have to be a feng shui master to create a home office...
View Article“Two Sides of the Telecommuting Coin”: A Telecommuting Checklist for Remote...
As the popularity of remote work continues to trend upwards, the particular trials and tribulations of the telecommuter become more defined. But the spotlight is often placed on the plight of the...
View Article4 Recruiting Tips from Top Remote Companies
No doubt about it: the success of a company ultimately comes down to its workforce. After all, when you have a united, happy, productive team whose members feel valued and respected and whose talents...
View ArticleDos and Don’ts of Managing a Remote Team
Working remotely has become an increasingly popular option for employees from all different industries, but the rise of telecommuters and field workers poses unique challenges for in-office management....
View ArticleAre Americans Shaming Their Co-Workers Who Work From Home?
Remote work, telecommuting and telework are all terms that everyone has become familiar with over the last decade. With the proliferation of IT consumerization and Bring Your Own Tech (BYOT), it has...
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Should You Work From Home Today? PGi’s Work from Home Flowchart Will Help You...
If you’re like me, you may have the ability to work from home, but you don’t utilize that ability as often as you’d like. I am currently working from home and, as I write this, I am overcome with...
View ArticleDeath of the Home Office
The last time you worked from home, where did you set up shop? Your couch, bed, kitchen table or outside on your porch? A decade ago, a telecommuter wouldn’t have the leisure of posting up for the day...
View ArticleWhy Remote Work Policies Fail for Some Employers
Here at PGi, we are big proponents of working smarter. For many in this age of digital transformation, working smarter means having a more nuanced approach to what constitutes “working”. Whereas work...
View ArticleWhy Remote Work is Perfect for Introverts
In recent years, remote work has grown in popularity, becoming an option for more people than ever before. While remote work options might not yet be the norm in the workplace, more and more companies...
View ArticleMaking Your Remote Workers Your Most Engaged Workers
Let’s look at that title for a second. Could remote employees be your most-engaged workers? Aren’t they just scattered across the globe doing who knows what? Well, we beg to differ. Remote employees...
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