While several companies have been caught off guard with this new trend of remote workers, some noted human resource experts say this is a great opportunity for the companies, to leverage its distributed workforce. Organizational challenges are now more of a headache for companies than the technical ones are. Having a remote workforce, actually lessens the pain of such hurdles. Several challenges though still remain. One of them is to do with communications medium. Another common issues can be along project management. Talent management and development is yet another of those. Yet another challenge with gig employment involves the IT services and its subsequent services received. Some companies may ask if it is worthwhile to actually bother about gig workers, when there exist so many challenges as elaborated above. But repeatedly it has been proved that yes one needs to engage with the remote workers, as this means that talent in the company is not limited by constraints.

Source:https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leading-remotely/

Uploaded Date: 14th December 2019