COVID accelerates virtual team work

Never has working in virtual teams, taken such a leap as during the Corona crisis. Whereas many companies had not taken this step before, COVID-19 forced many of them to have their employees working from home. As others understood much earlier, working remotely has many benefits like access to a larger talent pool, reduced costs of labour and offices, and less time spent on travelling.

But if your team members are based in different locations, countries or even continents, working together as a team can become quite complicated. Besides language barriers, time and cultural differences, it takes more effort to create a "team feeling" and to keep people on the right track.

This article by Gauri Sathe (on medium.com), provides various tips and tools related to working with virtual teams. Find out why it helps to often show your face online and how to get a job done on the other side of the world.