Effective Remote Work

Twelve Questions about Remote Working

With the Joel Test in mind, let’s create our own version. It will consist of twelve questions that can be answered quickly with a yes or no and will form a scorecard for the quality of the remote-working experience at a given company. And although we’ll win no prizes for originality, let’s call it the Remote Working Test.

There are many ways that we can use this Remote Working Test:

• We can score our own companies against it to see which areas we do well in and which we need to improve upon and why.

• We can attach our results from the test to our job advertisements to publicly show our commitment to providing a great remote-working experience, thus increasing transparency at our companies.

• We can ask pointed ...