Start-Ups in the Pandemic: Creating New Opportunities for Stronger Distributed Teams
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, things have significantly changed in every sector of every industry in the world. The major change was certainly in the rise of remote work, with thousands of people leaving their offices and starting to work from home. Today, with the pandemic being over, this shift still remains present. According to Forbes, only 4% of employees are asking their workers to come back to the office full time, while 90% are allowing hybrid work schedules.
So, what can start-ups do to stay competitive and create strong distributed teams? Let’s find out.
Finding & Recruiting Talent
Now that the working patterns have changed and preferences are majorly towards a fully remote or hybrid work schedule, start-ups have the opportunity to create such a desired workplace. Allowing their employees to work from where they feel most productive will make them highly competitive as an employer.
Plus, with the great resignation still being an ongoing economic trend, talent is out here, more at their reach than ever.
This means that start-ups can finally access the talented people who were once out of their reach.
Strengthening Team Collaboration
As a start-up, you already have the latest technology and tools at your disposal. Implementing these tools was the first, integral part of your launch, and now you can further improve your internal organization.
To strengthen your distributed team, you’ll need to make sure collaboration and communication are impeccable, no matter who’s working from where.
During the pandemic, so many companies embraced collaborative tools such as:
- Slack
- Miro
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Chat
- Google Workspace
- Notion
The need for such tools has risen in the pandemic and as a result, you have a wide range of high-quality smart tools that help empower your teams. They allow you to assign tasks, create work schedules, organize team meetings, keep track of their results, and have them communicate with one another freely.
With such deeply connected teams, start-ups are making sure no one is feeling left out, and everyone’s working at their best.
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Using Data to Manage Teams Better
Finally, no distributed team can work and function properly, if there isn’t great team management behind it. This is why start-ups also need to start using the newly designed team management tools that are based on gathering and analyzing data.
Team data can help start-ups understand how their team members are feeling when they are performing better, what problems they’re facing and how they can solve them.
Data helps better understand teams and thus manage them in a way that will help them flourish.
Final Thoughts
Even though the pandemic shook our everyday lives and led to one of the most challenging eras in recent history, the changes in working patterns that it created are something we want to keep in the future. Start-ups are embracing the new work model and making sure their employees are feeling free, productive, and motivated.
The pandemic definitely created new opportunities for stronger distributed teams and start-ups are jumping right on it.