A short YouTube conversation between Rich Bello and another speaker that identifies and rebuts common misconceptions about remote work (proximity bias). Key points: remote work is not entirely new—many people have long experience with distributed teams; home distractions are often overstated and can be mitigated by meaningful work and training; managers should focus on results rather than visually monitoring employees; problems often stem from hiring/trust, not remote work itself.
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Cognitive biases are more global in nature. It's a good idea to get down.
To the specific beliefs that make up these cognitive biases. Let's look at a few common beliefs.
And see if we can bust them.
So, erroneous belief number one, right?
Remote work was going to be an entirely new experience.
The Facts I have been working with remote teams for almost 30 years.
I'll bet that if you think about it, you too will find that you've been working with remote teams. I'd work with teams and people from.
New Zealand, China, England, the Philippines, Pakistan, Japan.
I don't mean just one offs here.
And there in many cases. I've managed teams for years overseas.
Now, granted, there's a difference between being in an office environment versus being home. But even there, I realized that the most significant relationship I had was remote working remotely even with other top members of my team.
Right?
And I was actually working from my home too.
Another erroneous belief is distractions from home.
Will certainly keep my employees and even.
Myself from being as efficient and effective.
As they can be in the office.
Where distractions are minimized, heads down, focused on their work. Right? The facts. Oh boy, is that one erroneous? Right?
Studies show consistently that people are even.
More distracted from work than they are at home.
But even more important than that is.
That the antidote to distraction is to find something that find a career and find the work that people are interested in fulfilled. That pretty much eliminates distraction.
If you hate your job, you'll constantly be seeking things to be distracted by. You also want to set your people.
Up for success with training about distractions. We have a separate course just on that topic. It's a topic called On Focus.
We have a webinar on Focus. You should check it out.
Another erroneous belief. If I can't see people working, I.
Won'T know that they actually are.
And this will cause a tremendous amount of stress. Fact. The fact is that what you should be focused on is not seeing them.
Work, but on getting results. Right?
And results are something that you can't see. If you're worried that they're going to.
Be on social media all day, I've got news for you. They were almost certainly doing that anyway, right?
There are lots of studies that show.
That if you're worried your employees need somebody watching over them to be working.
Then that's called babysitting, not managing.
And you know what? That will be the case for some employees.
Right?
But the key is to remember that the problem is not with remote work it's with your hiring practices, right?
You hired an untrustworthy employee. Bottom line, right? We'll discuss this in more depth in the trust episode.
The bottom line is that you need.
To either trust the people you work with or find others whom you can trust.
