

It should give colleagues as much flexibility as possible.It should prevent discussions and arguments between colleagues and managers about this remote policy.It should give managers and stakeholders an easy way of knowing when a person or team is available for a personal meeting and team discussion in the office.It should outline easy to follow rules to all colleagues.This simple remote policy should accomplish the following four goals: Has anybody here successfully implemented a remote policy where colleagues were still expected to be in the office partly? Do you have a list of simple rules that are easy to understand and easy to communicate? Simple guidelines such as "don't schedule remote shifts right before your vacation" or "inform the team at least 18 hours ahead of time about remote shifts" are questioned and are a cause for frustration. Employees started to expect unlimited flexibility in terms of if, when, and how much remote they can schedule.


We want to create a partly remote policy - meaning that we expect at about 50% of the working time to be spent in the office and the other 50% can be done remotely.īut so far, our efforts to create such a remote policy have failed.
