#TWEETCHAT SUMMARY: REMOTE EMPLOYEES – EFFECTIVE OR NOT?

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TWEETCHAT SUMMARY REMOTE EMPLOYEES EFFECTIVE
OR NOT? February 4, 2016 Mukul Agarwal

• The Tweetchat campaign in the series of
  AskHR discussions is the latest campaign we
  have come up with to reach out to the
  HR/Recruitment/TA fraternity across the world
  and involve them into a discussion that
  can help change the way we see Recruitment and
  Hiring.
• The discussion took place on Applicant
  Tracking System Twitter
• In this tweetchat, we discussed around the
  effectiveness of workfromhome and remotwork
  culture. And how effective are Remote
  Employees. The participants largely have
  supported this job, but with certain
  apprehensions in their minds. Have a look.
• What are the benefits of having Work-from-home
  Remote Employees in the company?
• It helps people work according to their preferred
  timings, makes them happy and they give their
  best shot at work
• Can easily get people who know the subject,
  without being physically present at office
• Lesser people in office, and it saves our day to
  day operational cost
• Being away from office, how remote employees can
  make themselves more efficient?
• If a remote employee can sort the time management
  aspect efficiency will come in
• Treat your work window as time truly away from
  home (9-5 for eg) and nothing should change
  unless important

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• Efficiency increases because they are not
  mentally burdened. They can prioritise work for
  increased efficiency
• How to track the performance and productivity of
  Remote employees?
• Solely wholly on the job done, quantitatively
  qualitatively as applicable, daily call, weekly
  skype
• Weekly conference calls, work completion status
  on weekly basis
• Mutual trust, keeping track of time management
  skills, employees mental health is crucial,
  establish F2F meeting frequency
• Should remote employees be treated
  equivalent to regular office employees? Why?
  Why not?
• Definitely at par with employees as they doing a
  similar work and need similar or more engagement
• They have to be treated more maturely
  sensitively. A robust Performance Management
  System is critical for workfromhome
• They cannot be treated equally because they work
  in different environment, and employee for
• workfromhome is not bonded with any office
  policies
• What could be the reasons which keep
  organisations away from having Remote employees?