Blog Articles

  • Tips to leading a remote team well
    While companies all over the world transition to a work-from-home environment and workers grapple with their own fears and uncertainty in a response to COVID-19, your leadership has never been more crucial and defining. That is why we have compiled these tips to leading a remote team well. Leaders...
  • How to set up a home office
    Many employers concerned about security and data integrity will provide a laptop or computer to their remote workers for home office use. In addition, there are other items like office furniture, additional hardware and software packages that can be supplied. Whether or not the items are provided...
  • Looking after the well-being of remote employees
    Having a remote workforce and implementing a flexible work policy requires leaders in organisations to intentionally consider how they will look after the well-being of remote workers. The well-being of remote workers is vital for several reasons. Firstly, remote workers are not seen on a daily...
  • Saving for a Better Tomorrow
    We all want to retire comfortably, own a comfortable home, and fill it with nice things.  And travel. To do these things you need money and, for most of us that means saving and investing. For some, saving money fits easily into our personality type yet, for the rest of us it takes discipline and...
  • Career Change: Become a Digital Marketer
    Changing careers is not something anyone does hastily. There are a few factors to compute least of all being the longevity of said career and the financial benefits and pitfalls of chasing it. However, digital marketing is one of the newer careers in the tech industry – pivoting off traditional...
  • How to join a video meeting - A guide to the most popular platforms
    It doesn’t matter if you work remotely, work from home or from an office you are probably joining a video meeting more and more often. We have put together a “how to guide” on using the most popular video meeting platforms so that you can get the most out of your meetings or online interviews. How...
  • Why hire a Virtual Assistant and what they do
    Why are so many companies globally hiring virtual assistants? What is it that they do that can help your business grow? Why hire a virtual assistant?  Virtual assistants (VA) are a cost and time efficient way to get tasks or projects done. In times of uncertainty as to what the future holds, hiring...
  • Training and development of remote employees
    In order for any business to grow, it needs to be able to hire and train new employees. With the move towards physical distancing and remote working, many employers ask, how do you train an employee remotely? Remote work has been one of the most notable workforce trends in recent years and in today...
  • How to onboard and induct remote working employees
    The success of onboarding and inducting a new remote employee is essential in ensuring that the new recruit feels part of the team from the beginning and that he/she has a clear understanding of what the expectations are. The onboarding and induction should include the setting up of a virtual...
  • How to conduct a successful telephone and video interview
    This article explains how to conduct a successful video or telephone interview. A video interview is widely accepted as the preferred method when it comes to interviewing candidates that will be working remotely.    Tone of voice and visual cues are important aspects to getting the full picture of...