5 Ways to Promote Collaboration in the Age of Remote Work

First, the good news. If you’re fortunate enough to be working from home these days, you may be experiencing a productivity boost of up to 22%.¹

Now for the bad news: the effectiveness of working from home varies significantly from person to person. You may have experienced this on your team or in your own tendency to check the fridge for the ninth time between calls to see if a new snack has materialized. Remote work is not a one size fits all solution.

And perhaps the worst news: it seems that firms offering distributed working policies are marked by less innovation, collaboration, and unity than their competitors with a traditional office setup. The happenstance interactions that take place in kitchens, hallways, and firm-sponsored events can ignite unusual partnerships. When people of different business units get to talking, it can foster cross-team ideation, new projects, and ultimately improved G&S for the end user. Over the long term, groundbreaking business ideas serve as a key determinate of whether a firm will flourish into maturity.²

If you’re reading this while attempting to work from home, you may consider bookmarking this page then taking a break from your laptop to reevaluate your personal productivity strategies. Photo by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash.

At least for now, remote work is the new norm. As the world aims to suppress the spread of coronavirus, many of us are hunkering down and trying to hammer out…