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HBR Guide to Remote Work
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HBR Guide to Remote Work

by Harvard Business Review
February 2021
Beginner
198 pages
3h 31m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 17

Virtual Off-Sites That Work

by Bob Frisch, Cary Greene, and Dan Prager

Are off-sites off for the foreseeable future? During the pandemic, social distancing recommendations and travel restrictions made it difficult, if not impossible, for many organizations to convene teams of any size within their offices, much less at sessions outside them. Not surprisingly, the initial reaction for most was to postpone or cancel those events, over concern that working together by phone or videoconference wouldn’t be as useful or productive as the in-person meeting would have been.

But some of the meaty, controversial types of topics often reserved for the rarefied atmosphere of off-sites still need to happen. Companies need to learn how to do them ...

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