Lead your team through COVID-19 disruption with expert resources and remote working tips.
  • 0Shopping Cart
One Circle
  • Business
  • Shop HR Solutions
  • Start A Project
  • Consultants
  • Perspectives
  • Login
  • Menu Menu
  • One Circle Banner
You are here: Home1 / Thought Leadership2 / Remote and flexible work transition – What does that look like for...
remote and flexible work

Remote and flexible work have been growing for years. Today it became the only way of working. When the virus spread subsides, remote work is going mainstream – maybe not – but sure many more businesses will adopt it and others will have readiness plans in place. One thing is for sure, many more people will want to know how a successful transition to remote work looks like.

The HR function is for sure impacted heavily, and at all levels, with the current situation and will be taking on additional responsibilities in the world of the remote workforce.

What are some the areas that need review

A successful transition to remote and flexible work requires clarity on some policies and procedure. You can find a lot of resources online on remote and flexible work and quite a few policy templates in circulation. A remote and flexible work policy document though should be tailored to your company’s needs and is considered the starting point for setting up your employment policies.

Below are some of the policies and guidelines you need to have in place or amend to get the remote work transition started on the right foot:

Attendance policy

This starts with the business deciding what works for them and whether to implement a strict attendance policy (i.e work on a fixed schedule when working from home) or a flexible attendance policy. You need to clearly outline your expectations about employees showing up to work online and communicate this effectively.

Confidentiality

You will need to stipulate clearly how remote employees receive and handle personal and private information about the business and clients in a virtual setup. You want to make sure that this information is well-protected at all times. Remote employees could be working from anywhere, further clarity on safety of their network connection is essential.

For example, it needs to be made clear that remote workers who are planning on having confidential conversations with customers and colleagues can’t do so from a place where they can be overheard. And if you are working on something sensitive, screen visibility needs to be considered.

Employee Code of Conduct

Clearly outlining the business expectations regarding employees’ behaviour towards their colleagues, supervisors and overall organisation whilst working virtually is important. Communication guidelines for remote teams and leaders to shed clarity on when managers and leaders are allowed to communicate with employees, through which channels, etc should be in place.

Dress code when meeting online

Expectations on the dress code during virtual meetings should be communicated whether you adopt a relaxed approach, less formal or a formal dress code. Virtual dress code extends to the employee environment and background during virtual meetings.

One thing to keep in mind, remote work is a business process, not just Policy.

Remote and flexible work changes the way your company operates. You do need a remote work policy as much as you need a remote work transition plan. The policy gives people direct guidelines and the remote work transition plan maps out the way of working, culture and growth, communication, governance and performance for results and output.

Let us help you – reach out and book time to discuss.

One Circle is a freelancing platform for independent HR consultants.

Where businesses of all sizes can find coaches and HR specialist consultants across the entire HR spectrum with multiple areas of expertise. If you are a business and are looking to get HR projects done, virtually, consider signing up!

Get Started

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Emma El-Karout
Emma El-Karout
The cheerleader of an online community of freelance HR consultants ready to work on projects, on-demand. Emma has 20+ years in corporate HR Director level roles.
Emma is a contributor to the Forbes ME Magazine, speaker on 4IR and Future of Work conferences, nominated for a 2020 Positive Role Model Award for Entrepreneurs. Founder of One Circle.
Emma El-Karout
Latest posts by Emma El-Karout (see all)
  • HR transformation in an open talent world - January 22, 2021
  • The cost of a freelance consultant vs a traditional consultant - January 4, 2021
  • Find the perfect HR experts on-demand - December 30, 2020

Thank you for following One Circle and hope you are enjoying our blog. Can we send you our next blog?

Let us know
Please fill in your details below
  • Enter the letters and/or numbers shown above
  • By clicking the ‘Submit’ button, you are agreeing to One Circle Standard Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice

COMPANY

  • About Us
  • What do we actually do

COMMUNITY

  • Join Our Slack
  • Talent
  • Clients
  • Consultants’ Playbook

PROJECTS

  • All Projects
  • Start A Project

YELLOW ROOM

  • Book a virtual roundtable

GET STARTED

  • Business
  • For Talent
  • For SMEs
  • For Enterprises
  • Find HR experts

RESOURCES

  • Perspectives
  • Insights
  • Events
  • FAQ’s
  • Payments

JOIN US

  • As A Company
  • As A Consultant

HR SOLUTIONS

  • Your HR in a box
  • Transition to sustainable remote working
  • Drive engagement and productivity
  • Digital learning and leadership development
  • High performing teams
  • Can’t find what you are looking for? What’s on your mind?

LEGAL

  • Standard Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Notice
  • Marketplace Terms and Conditions
  • Code of Conduct

FEATURED ON

  • One Circle in Forbes
  • Topcoder ‘Uprisor Podcast’
  • Toptal ‘The Talent Economy’ Podcast
  • SIA ‘The Buzz’

SPECIALIST HR TALENT

  • Organisational Effectiveness
  • Organisational Design
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Learning and Development
  • Performance Management
  • Talent Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Total Rewards
  • Culture & Engagement
  • Coaching
  • Agile Knowledge Pod
  • HR in a Box for Start-ups
  • Board Advisory
  • Speakers

GET IN TOUCH

  • Contact Us
  • Book A Demo
One Circle logo

We empower 12 million people by providing them with access to global opportunities

SECURE PAYMENTS BY

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
© 2020 One Circle HR (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved.
Scroll to top

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Accept

Cookie and Privacy Settings



How we use cookies

We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.

Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.

We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.

We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.

Google Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience.

If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here:

Other external services

We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.

Google Webfont Settings:

Google Map Settings:

Google reCaptcha Settings:

Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:

Other cookies

The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them:

Privacy Policy

You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.

Privacy Notice
Accept settingsHide notification only