Why don’t leaders like telecommuting?

Due to the impact of the new pneumonia epidemic, nearly 60% of companies began to work remotely after the Spring Festival holiday. The first group of people started to work from home, and another wave of people came back to work from home on February 10. The entire gateway has been a hot topic in remote working, and many netizens complained about the wonderful remote working rules introduced by various leaders: every day before everyone gets off work, everyone must send a daily work report for the day; each notification message will be restored within half an hour, and WeChat will be online at any time. , respond quickly to work needs; to open the entire video, you must use the computer-side communication tool. Failure to reply within 2 hours will be treated as absenteeism;

In fact, as early as 2015, according to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, 24% of U.S. employees did some or all of their work remotely. According to the research results of the 2017 Global Workplace Analysis, the proportion of telecommuting has more than doubled in the past 10 years. In fact, managers are trying their best to formulate new online office rules, the main purpose of which is to urge employees to complete tasks on time and achieve efficient work. But for most of us in the workplace, remote working is a brand new attempt. Many people are used to working in a fixed workplace and devoting themselves wholeheartedly to achieving efficient results.

In the remote working mode, managers face new challenges and three methods to achieve efficient team work. Facing this new office experience, not only employees need to adjust their time management, but managers also need to improve their management thinking to achieve a win-win situation for both teams to work remotely and work efficiently. To this end, this article will conduct an in-depth discussion from the following three aspects: First, from the perspective of managers, what are the management challenges they face in remote working?

In the face of challenges, why leaders should improve their management thinking. How leaders can manage teams remotely. From a manager’s perspective, what are the management challenges you face while working remotely? Generally speaking, the reason why companies do not implement telecommuting or rarely implement telecommuting is because in the perception of many managers, they believe that telecommuting and their own managers will have the following obvious challenges: Employees will work when they work from home. It is very lazy to work far away from home. Many people have a certain degree of familiarity and dependence on their own lives. There is no obvious boundary between the bedroom and the work area, and they are not as proactive and diligent as in the office.