Discussion: Growth in the Remote Workforce
Globally, we are increasingly moving to a remote-centered workplace. In the United States alone, as a global culture, approximately 25 percent of Americans worked remotely in 2021. This figure will nearly double by 2025 (Ioannou, 2021). This places an extraordinary burden on both supervisors and their employees, mainly because neither has had considerable education and training in working in a distributed workplace. As the Organizational Behavior Specialist in your organization, your role is to maintain your employees’ productivity and ensure that your organization remains profitable. With the growth in the number of employees working from home, this poses a communication challenge. What do you do?
Initial Post
Discuss your plan on how you will ensure that both supervisors and their employees working in a distributed workforce are not only more productive but profitable as well. How will this be communicated? Provide a minimum of two researched strategies in your plan to support your plan.
Post your initial response by Wednesday, 11:59 pm ET.
Response Post
Once you’ve posted your plan, read through those of your peers. Then, select two to respond to by offering feedback and suggestions on their plan. Your response is due by Sunday, 11:59 pm ET.
Evaluation
It is important that you review the Discussion Rubric and read the Discussion Posting Guide. These documents lay out the basis for how you should engage in discussions and how you will be evaluated.
All discussions combined are worth 20% of your final course grade.
