Hybrid and remote work options offer employees greater flexibility, open up opportunities for companies to hire from a larger talent pool and reduce office space costs.  But these options don’t come without challenges.  In this episode we’re going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of Remote and hybrid work options and explore why more companies in the ARM space have been slow to adapt to this growing trend . 

What you'll learn about in this episode

The benefits of remote and or hybrid models

How are creditors handling remote/hybrid

The challenges specific to ARM companies and ideas to solve them

We'll review results of a recent ARM poll and look at trends, adoption rate etc.

We explore health, mental health and mindset.

Guests:  Ashley Campanella of Arbeit software and Jeremy Ruth of Arvest Bank.  

Resources

https://www.arbeitsoftware.com/what-your-employees-want-you-to-know-about-remote-work/

https://www.arbeitsoftware.com/improve-communication-collaboration-remote-team/

Games / Apps to use:
- An example of Arbeit's Wellness Challenge they do every month is included on the episode show notes page kindredforce.com


- For Slack users, the Donut App allows employees to have quick 15/30 minute meetings once a month to just get to know each other more: https://www.donut.com/ (free with available upgrade)
- Assembly: https://www.joinassembly.com/ is used for rewarding employees, they can be given points and they can save them for whatever rewards the Owner / Managers create. (Free up to 10 users, anything above may be $2-$4 a month)
- Games: Scribbl (https://skribbl.io/), Scattergories (https://stopots.com/en/), Arbeit also put together their own trivia for game days (examples: 'Whose pet is this?,' 'Whose handwriting is this?,' 'Random facts') and the employees will send whoever is running these a picture if need be to be guessed by everyone else. Whoever wins 1st, 2nd, 3rd place gets assembly points! (all free to play!)

Additional Resources
Adam Grant Tweet
Stats on Remote Workers