HBR: "Does Your Company Have a Long-Term Plan for Remote Work?"
Many organizations are considering long term plans for remote work as a result of the current health crisis. Companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Square are all considering more flexible work options for their employees so it warrants asking…does your organization have a long term remote work plan?
As companies consider their long term plans they need to give thought to the technology needs, resources, and rules that need to exist or be established to function productively in a remote work culture.
In this Harvard Business Review article, they explore the “future-back” thinking and planning method as a process for developing this plan. It begins with determining the end or desired result and then working backward to determine the steps to achieve the ideal outcome. Here are the four steps.
Creating a plan…
What is your overall vision of your ideal work system of the future?
Consider the implicit and explicit assumptions you are making
Test those assumptions
Use the learnings from these experiments to adjust or pivot your system’s components and your vision itself
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