Projects & At-Home Workers

Planning and Culture for the At-Home Project

The trend toward more at-home workers challenges and creates demand for project managers who can adapt their PM skills to this unique environment. As organizations move workers home to reap the facility cost savings and gain productivity and quality improvements, project managers must respond with techniques adapted to this unique work environment.

At-Home Work

Managing at-home workers requires new management, control, and leadership techniques whether the employee is performing work with:

    Tangible output: data entry or document processing

    Intangible output: programming, analysis, legal research, engineering.

When we cannot use a count of something like pages or keystrokes to set expectations and measure achievement, managers must use project management techniques specifically adapted to at-home work.

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