According to Global Workplace Analytics, the number of people who work from home has grown by more than 173% since 2005. There are now over five million remote employees in the U.S. The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic prompted stay-at-home...
Wanted: FOMO. “Fear of Missing Out” Keeps Killing Productivity
FOMO defined What is FOMO? And why is it so important? Well, it’s one of the most popular syndromes of the 21st century – the fear of missing out. More than half of social media users are experiencing FOMO. They are continuously afraid of missing...
5 Online Team Building Activities for Remote Teams
Teamwork makes the dream work — a cliche you would see on a tacky office poster — might sound lame but it’s very true. Humans are social beings, even more so when it comes to business. You can’t build or run it single-handedly. Heck, you wouldn’t...
Top 7 Industries for Work From Home Jobs
The pandemic has permanently reshaped the workplace. It made millions of people say goodbye to the rush hour and start working from home. The apps such as Skype, Zoom, Chanty, or Slack made it all possible. We no longer have to be in an office full...
The Ultimate Guide to Video Conferencing
The alarm rings on your phone. It’s 7 am. You swipe up to shut the alarm and unlock your phone to check your messages. The first message is from a client in Europe requesting an urgent video conference call for 7:30 am your time. You roll out...
11 Brainstorming Tools to Improve Teamwork
Does your small business have remote workers? Or are you allowing your employees to work from home owing to the pandemic? You are not alone. In fact, 57% of small business owners are considering allowing their employees to work from home post...
How to Run the Perfect Virtual Meeting
Remote teams are not new. However, they have been in the minority in most industries until recently. But due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, remote working has become the norm for millions of people across the United States and all over the world...
COVID-19 Has Changed the Business Communication Game – Here’s How to Adapt
They say COVID-19 has changed the world forever and business communication is no exception. Remote work is becoming a new normal making employees set up their home offices and bring all the work communication online. Whether we are communicating...
Five Powerful Behaviors to Boost Team Performance
Your mood, your demeanor and your verbal and nonverbal behaviors exert a powerful influence on your team members and the working environment. Every moment of the day, our brain is busy scanning the environment for unpleasant things we should...
How to Easily Achieve Effective Employee Communication in Your Team
To commence this discourse regarding effective employee communication we shall, before all else, formalize a definition for the term. The above is an example of over-inflated written communication. Big words are used making the sentence...
