Managing Productivity Remotely

With unemployment at historic lows and wages stagnant, today's workforce has more options than ever before on where they want to spend their working hours. Most modern workers seek out a quality experience, one that pays the bills and offers advancement opportunities, but also one they enjoy and are engaged with, has a good company culture, and offers a purpose and social responsibility.

How to onboard and build culture and connection in distributed teams As working from anywhere becomes the new normal, employee engagement from day one is absolutely crucial when it comes to identifying, hiring and retaining the best talent from around the world. Effective communication is critical to productivity, collaboration, culture and agility. However, the way we communicate the channels, modes, and methods have to evolve alongside our work environment to meet the needs of the modern work era. With distributed teams, it is imperative that companies rethink their investment in and approach to an employee’s first few days and weeks at the company. In this program, you will learn how building a strong onboarding process can build better connections in remote and distributed environments, allowing employees to build strong bonds from the start and retaining the best remote talent around the world. You will hear how creating intentional opportunities for connection and cohesion impacts employee output, engagement and morale.

2018 set new records: the lowest unemployment rate and the highest quit rate in decades. It seems the talent stakes climb higher each year.Now is the time to level-up your approach to achieve the quality of candidate flow that sustains and scales.Join Daniel Roberts, CEO of Friendly Human, who will reveal how a multi-touch system of social media and email marketing campaigns allowed him to identify more culture-fit talent and usher top candidates from attraction to hire in less time.

The economic fluctuations of recent years have had varying effects on recruiting. As we look into 2023 these challenges are here to stay. Whilst some companies have been forced to cut back on hiring and even conduct layoffs, others are finding it harder than ever to hire and retain employees. Regardless of what is going on in the industry or whichever side of the spectrum you’re on, now is a critical time to focus on improving processes, increasing efficiency, and saving money in the quest to attract the right candidates and make better hires.