This book have some great tips on remote work. I’m no longer remote but I do have one employee who is remote so I found this helpful.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy to honestly review!

Special thanks to NetGalley, authors Chris Dyer and Kim Shepard, and Kogan Page Ltd for the advanced copy of Remote Work.

We are entering a new era of advanced technology and businesses trending to remote work. Building a strong remote team is essential to successful business leaders. Remote Work is a helpful resource with real-life examples and valuable tips to build a stronger foundation for remote teams.

Loads of examples, and strategies for plenty of different scenarios. This book is obviously relevant to many of us, and if you have a team that are partially in the office, and partially at home, it also applies. Overall I recommend this book to leaders who are leading a team of remote or semi-remote workers

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Such a timely book
I have been working in a new job completely remotely due to starting the job in lockdown 1 !
I haven't even met my team yet

This is a great ideas resource and I have already put some things in place
I shall be putting more in over time

A great resource

Like many people since the Covid pandemic struck in 2019, I have found myself suddenly working from home and managing a workforce who are also all home based. I haven't seen my team face to face for over a year. What started as a temporary aberration now seems to be a permanent - or at least medium-long term - one. So I was looking for materials that would help me manage the challenges of supporting a remote workforce better.

This book appeared to be perfect for that purpose... but it didn't live up to expectations. Whilst there is a constant emphasis on remote working, it's really more of a general management book about leading a small business. It is aimed at CEOs in the private sector - most of the advice is not applicable to middle managers in larger organisations or those in the public sector. A great deal is common sense or management theory which can be found in any business book.

There is very little practical help about how to work and lead effectively from home. Pages and pages about assessing personality types to see who can work from home and not is unhelpful when no one has a choice in the matter. There's a lot about how to move/set up your business remotely when realistically most people don't have that luxury - we've gone remote in the most rushed and disruptive of circumstances.

The useful information here could barely fill a pamphlet, let alone a full length book. It feels like a general business manual that has been quickly dressed up with a remote working angle in order to cash in on the current unique situation with so many workers suddenly adjusting to working remotely longer term. It might be useful for it's very specific target market - the CEO of a small private sector firm who is considering whether to change their current physically-based workplace model into a remote one. But to be honest, if you're in that position you probably already have a grasp of this stuff anyway. If you don't, you'd be far better off investing in one of the many, many other books about how to lead and manage a small business.