These Are The Proven Kaspersky Executives' Remote Working Tips To Increase Productivity

Kaspersky executive gives tips for working remotely (photo: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many companies to hire their employees from home and work remotely.

Several Kaspersky executives say they agree that remote work can increase earnings. As Executive Vice President at Kaspersky, Evgeniya Naumova, finds that online collaboration opens up new perspectives for her department.

Naumova added that her team managed to end the pandemic year on a positive note with better results than what we achieved in previous years.

Likewise Sergey Soldatov, Head of the Center for Security Operations at Kaspersky who agrees that remote work can bring new achievements rather than difficulties, when combined with established preparations.

Therefore, Kaspersky executives provide proven tips by which to run multinational, remote, and hybrid teams efficiently.

The following are field-proven tips from Kaspersky executives that can help managers increase the productivity of their remote teams:

• Hire people who are self-motivated to share your company values, enjoy their work, and move the company forward. It promotes team building and lets you, trust workers, without having to follow them with a stopwatch.
• Allows employees to focus on the areas where they show the greatest efficiency and enthusiasm. Let employees express themselves and share tasks among different teams, so that team members understand and learn new processes;
• Avoid micromanagement. Trust and support the way they work without being too controlling. Work should be judged by measurable results, not by hours spent on tasks. 
• Increase the level of maturity of business processes. Build metrics that allow you to judge your team's results based on the value they contribute.
• Even if your team is working remotely, try to hold regular face-to-face meetings. Communication is challenging with remote work as people perceive between 50% and 80% (according to different sources) of information through non-verbal cues. Face-to-face communication helps you and your teammates get to know each other and can prevent potential communication problems.
• Take advantage of all the benefits the remote model has to offer and manage your time as effectively as possible. For example, if you can't attend a virtual meeting in person, ask a coworker to send you a recording so you can listen to it afterwards at a higher speed. This will save you time and also provide you with good information.
• Read the relevant literature and study best practices as more information on the topic will enable you to make better decisions. Try books, like “Remote: Office not required,” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanssen, or guides from companies that have long worked under the fully remote model.