When your business has invested in hiring remote workers, it is important that you are able to include those workers in the day to day business of your team. Video screens are not only helpful to you during the hiring and selection process. Think of video as a continuous tool that will help you further […]
Is your “corner office” located in your own home? For many, working at home or even across the globe from the brick and mortar location is the norm. This type of work goes by many names, a few include: telecommuting, remote work, or virtual work, etc. First, let’s define the term. According to Wikipedia, Telecommuting: is […]
A recent study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 63% of companies allowed employees to occasionally work from home in 2012. Currently, 34 million Americans often work from home and it is expected that this number will increase to 63 million by the year 2016. Spark Hire’s recently launched whitepaper was created […]
With more and more companies turning to occasional work from home days (or eliminating a traditional office altogether) it’s clear that the role of the human resources department has to change too. The HR function becomes much more difficult when employees aren’t in the office all the time, or at all. If your business operates […]
You could argue that all of the workers in Dilbert are pretty remote. That is, they don’t seem to do much work, or listen very well, or accomplish… anything. We’ll get to that in a moment. This strip is about telecommuting and actual remote employees. It also portrays an interesting relationship between remote employees and […]