How to Build a Strong Company Culture for Your Remote Team process.st/remote-team August 19, 2019
This is a guest post by David Miller, a technical writer & edu-tech enthusiast currently pursuing research in project management software. You can find him on , or writing for the ProProfs Project. If I ask you to select a few colleagues in your company and take a survey of how well they understand their company’s culture, how do you think they’d score? Not so sure? Now, think about remote teams. Teams you don’t even talk on a regular basis – how sure are you that they know your company’s values or culture? Let’s take an example. According to a PMI study, 83% of respondents spend at least an hour or two working remotely every day. Among which the percentage of remote employees stand at: 47% – Business Owners 47% – Managers 50% – Executives 36% – Team Members Now, as you can see that most upper-management employees are usually working remotely with the company, and if they themselves don’t possess a firm grasp on company culture – how will they pass it on to their team members? Usually, remote team members are simply assigned tasks with a due date and it is all professional. But, what most companies don’t realize is that it is really crucial for everyone who is part of a company to understand their values and culture. Why? Because it is believed that the only purpose of hiring a remote team is to get the work done on time. But, that is not the case. Most project managers tend to lose track of the fact that even remote teams represent the organization they work with and being affiliated with an organization is enough to follow their culture, rules, regulations, and procedures to the book. 1/7