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How To Keep Remote Teams Engaged
Employee engagement has been a pretty hot topic over the past year. The “great work from home” experiment forced millions of employees to find new ways to get work done. And as working from home moved from a short-term experiment to a long-haul arrangement, it’s worth considering the long-term impact of working remotely on motivation, collaboration, and engagement.
But it’s difficult to get a clear answer on whether or not employees working remotely are engaged. Depending on the researchers conducting studies, and the timing of when the study was conducted over the past year, you get very different results.
Some surveys suggest employee engagement is at an all-time high.
Other researchers argue that employee engagement is perilously low.
It’s hard to know what’s true about the level of employee engagement. But it’s safe to say that employee engagement has never been harder for most organizations that it has in the past year. If most of your engagement strategies relied on a colocated office, then it’s safe to say they haven’t been working well.
So, in this article, we’ll outline four new strategies to keep remote employees and remote teams engaged.
