Attendance for Remote Teams: Tracking It Without Treating Adults Like Children
When attendance records are worth keeping, what they can never tell you about someone's work, and seven rules for running them without suspicion.
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Practical advice for running remote and hybrid teams: communication, focus, work-life balance and the tools that make distributed work succeed.
When attendance records are worth keeping, what they can never tell you about someone's work, and seven rules for running them without suspicion.
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