{"id":36993,"date":"2022-12-06T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessyield.com\/?p=36993"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:28:11","slug":"are-your-remote-employees-floundering-in-a-sea-of-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessyield.com\/management\/are-your-remote-employees-floundering-in-a-sea-of-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Remote Employees Floundering in a Sea of Loneliness? Top 5 Killers of Motivation in Your Remote Team ","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Covid-19 pandemic brought various restrictions to minimize person-to-person interaction, including shelter-in-place orders, quarantines, curfews, and lockdowns. As a result, organizational leaders were prompted to embrace remote working as a way to ensure business continuity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To some organizations, remote working proved very effective, with many choosing to have most of their employees continue working remotely even as the nation opens up. However, the biggest challenge with remote working has been worker loneliness and lack of motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The good news is that identifying the leading causes of loneliness and reduced motivation in your remote workers can be an excellent way to ensure they stay productive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meetings allow teams to come together and share ideas while also getting directions from the management level. But having a meeting for the sake of it may not mean much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When having meetings, a good rule of thumb is to ensure they are effective by identifying the discussion topics and preparing the agenda ahead of time. It would be best if you also tried to get employees’ feedback to help you improve on future meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having an effective staff meeting can help your remote teams in various ways, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When working in a brick-and-mortar office setting, checking in on employees is easy. After all, they may be just a few meters away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, if they are working from home, the proverbial out-of-mind sight can play out. But that should never happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a manager or team leader, it is your responsibility to proactively check on your team from time to time during a working day. The check-ins can help you know if they are having any problems but, most importantly, make them feel like they are a vital part of the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meeting in person once in a while can have quite a positive impact on your team. But it doesn\u2019t have to be a work meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can consider anything like team-building events every once in a while, drinks after work, etc. However, this option is only applicable if your team lives within the same geographical region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If your team is spread worldwide, you may need to create and organize virtual team-building events. Team building helps your team members get to know each other better, which boosts motivation and collaboration at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every employee dreams of growing on a career level, and nothing is more effective in killing motivation in employees than feeling like they are in a dead-end job. This applies to brick-and-mortar office employees and remote workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, let your employers know that there is room for growth<\/a> in your organization by providing training and having them fill new positions befitting their new skills. Also, you may consider promoting high performance, which can act as a significant motivator towards productivity in your team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5. Inflexibility<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n