Corporate culture: Handling teleworkers
March 31st, 2008 Posted in General
Managers like to believe home-based employees are working as hard as if they were in the office, even if their attire is probably a little less than professional. But appearances — or, in this case, the lack of them — sometimes aren’t what they seem, and it’s not always because a particular teleworker is lazy. “Virtual work amplifies pre-existing problems within an organization,” says Michael Dziak, an Atlanta-based trainer and consultant specializing in telework programs.