Remote Workers

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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How does working remotely complicate your career? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Siobhan O’Mahony, a professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business. They talk through how to advance in your job when you’re not in the building, deal with a problematic colleague you never see, and manage teams in other offices.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:23.2	We can do something about them. That's where Dear HBR comes in. We take your questions about workplace dilemmas,
0:30.1	and with the help of experts and insights from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:39.4	Today we're talking about remote work with Shavon O'Mahehani.
0:43.0	She's a professor at Questrum School of Business at Boston University.
0:46.9	Shavon, thanks so much for coming on the show.
0:48.9	Thanks for having me.
0:50.2	So, Shavon, what are the biggest problems that people have with remote work?
0:54.0	Well, one problem is people forgetting you.
0:57.2	People get nervous that they're forgotten about.
1:00.0	You know, you have that conference call and there's somebody there and you forget and then their voice pops up.
1:04.4	Everybody's like, oh, you're there.
1:06.0	So I think people who work remotely sometimes struggle to maintain their salience and their relevance.
1:12.6	Out of sight, out of mind.
1:14.3	Mm-hmm. That's dangerous at work.
1:15.8	It is, yeah.
1:17.0	And it's also a problem for the managers of those workers, right?
1:20.5	Right. It is on the manager.
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