Guide To Managing Your Mobile Workforce By Catherine Roseberry, About.com

Used with permission from About.com

Catherine Roseberry, About.com, writes four articles to help you manage your mobile workforce. In the first article she explains how to evaluate workers based on performance rather than location. The second article offers advice on how to manage your virtual team. And the final two articles highlight the type of people who should be hired as remote workers.

1. Evaluate Workers Based on Performance Rather Than Location
Some companies have two sets of appraisals used for onsite workers and for remote workers. The problem with this is that people who work onsite may feel that the remote workers have an easy ride and may not have as many things expected of them. Remote workers may feel the opposite is true.

2. Successfully Managing a Virtual Team
This list may seem overwhelming at first glance but remember the end result is a smoothly running team that will accomplish it's goals and get the job done.

3. Ideal Qualities for Remote Workers
Some workers are better suited to working in a remote environment and this is because they have well developed job skills and inherent qualities which make them adapt to remote work.

4. Make Mobility Work with the Right People
Another reason that mobile work arrangements may fail is that the people selected to work remotely and those who end up supervising the remote workers are just the wrong people.