{"id":11154,"date":"2021-10-01T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:01:22","slug":"shifting-demands-of-virtual-team-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/shifting-demands-of-virtual-team-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Demands of Virtual Team Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Pew Research<\/a>, 62% of the workers they polled who hold bachelor\u2019s degrees say they can do their work from home. The COVID-19 pandemic forced workers and employers to weigh the benefits and disadvantages of having jobs at a traditional workplace. About half of Pew\u2019s respondents who began working from home during the pandemic reported that they have more flexibility when working from home. According to a Gallup poll<\/a>, nearly half of the people who worked from home during the pandemic would prefer to keep that arrangement. \"Smiling Clearly, businesses and their employees are thinking about the workplace differently than they did before the pandemic began. This indicates that businesses offering work-from-home flexibility are more likely to be attractive to the top talent. This is an important piece of the human resources pie in a job market with more job openings than job seekers. When the pandemic began, businesses scrambled to facilitate working from home as a necessity. Today, businesses around the world are looking for ways to manage a labor pool that resists working in a traditional setting. Luckily, as the demand for more work-from-home opportunities continues, businesses can now take a deeper look at the realities of having a workforce that rarely or never meets face to face. Putting into practice what they\u2019ve learned during the pandemic, businesses can now adapt to the shifting needs of their workforce, and the concerns of the teams who work for them virtually. This initially may place some strain on managers who saw working from home as a temporary situation. Wrapping heads and plans around a more permanent geographically diverse workforce can be challenging. There are some responses to the new normal that can make adjusting to the shifting demands of virtual team management easier. In the end, these arrangements can have positive outcomes for companies, managers, and workers, alike.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Technology<\/h4>\r\n\r\n

So much of what makes managing a virtual team possible\u2014and so much of what it takes to do it well\u2014comes down to the technology. It would seem to go without saying that if we\u2019re going virtual, of course we worry about the technology. But, the key to successful virtual team management is having the right technology in place. For example, consider the list of tips compiled by the human resources company HRCloud. Their article, \u201c8 Tips to Help You Manage a High-Performance Virtual Team<\/a>,\u201d outlines their ideas of what\u2019s important to a virtual manager. Four of their eight tips involve technology:<\/p>\r\n