On the Job by Anita Bruzzese How to Best Manage Telecommuters

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese How to Best Manage Telecommuters Allowing employees to work from home or other remote locations is often touted as a way tokeep workers more engagedand retain key employees. With more than 3.3 million working remotely, or about 2.6% of the U.S. employee workforce, its clear that the definition of the American workplace is changing. But that doesnt mean working remotely is without its problems. Yahoo CEOMarissa Mayer put the kabosh on work-from-homedeals and ordered everyone to return to the office so they could be more collaborative and innovative. Soon after, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman issued a memo urging the employees to work more in the office because HP needs all hands on deck. Dan Ingram, vice president of marketing at Enkata, writes in Wired.com that his company found that those whowork in an office do get more done, but telecommuting isnt going to go away because it does offer many advantages such as savings on office space and a broader candidate pool. The problem is that many companies, Yahoo included, manage telecommuters exactly the same as they would manage people in the office. This doesnt work, he writes. So lets look at thebiggest mistakes you make as a managerwhen it comes to remote workers: (see rest of post here)