Effective remote employee management strategies – Part 2

Imagine that when you were at the company, you could keep track of whether your employees were on time or not, were following company style, were working or not. But when employees work remotely, you absolutely cannot grasp the above.

So you need to have effective remote employee management strategies

Build relationships and be ready to support employees when needed

One of the difficulties of working from home is the lack of face-to-face interaction. You cannot meet employees every day to talk and exchange work directly like before.

Therefore, make full use of online communication channels to reach all employees and provide timely support when needed. Make sure that you always connect with everyone to ensure alignment between superiors and subordinates in the company.

Do not hesitate to praise and encourage employees

If employees work happily and positively, the business will operate and develop effectively. As a manager, don’t hesitate to praise and motivate your employees. Know how to motivate them to give their best to their work.

Employees easily lose motivation to work if they are punished or not praised for a job well done

Work from home has many advantages, but the biggest drawback is boredom in the long run. Many people feel unmotivated and uninterested in their current job. As a manager, you should find ways to praise and motivate your employees.

Try to help them find joy in work again, make them feel that the work they are doing brings a lot of meaning to society and to themselves.

Reward and discipline properly

Whether you work in person or work online, you should still maintain reward and discipline policies. That way, new employees feel that they are still working for real, just working remotely.

You can propose a salary increase or bonus for employees who complete their goals on time or exceed them, have unique ideas and initiatives, make great contributions to the company, etc.

On the contrary, for those who are behind schedule, negligent in work, you should not discipline too harshly because it will affect their morale and work productivity.

Take advantage of employee management tools when working from home

Currently, in addition to email, facebook or zalo, there are many great applications that we can use to connect with employees. To serve the purpose of large gatherings, you can use Skype or Zoom Meeting. To exchange work information, exchange documents, you can consider Google Drive Dopbox.

These are all popular, easy-to-use applications that bring high efficiency in the process of managing remote employees.

And above are all the effective employee management strategies when working from home that Vntrip wants to share with you – talented managers. Thereby, we hope that you have partly drawn for yourself useful information and effective ways to manage employees in this 4.0 technology era.

Team GEM Global (Synthesis and compilation)