The following is part two of a two-part series on remote employment and work. Part one, “The Remote Revolution: Jobs in the Cloud,” exposed the advantages to both employer and employee of building a remote workforce or taking a job as a virtual staffer.
Remote employment developed a bad reputation in 2013 after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer instituted a “no work from home” policy for her 12,000 employees. This demonstrated that if the person in charge of the company does not subscribe to the philosophy, it won’t work. Before beginning to build a remote team or even hire a remote individual, one of the biggest challenges is getting top-down executive level buy-in to deploy a staffing model that integrates or holistically reinvents a team with work from home employees.
