Now, if we compare managing in-house teams with remote ones, we’ll notice three critical challenges related to the latter:
We already mentioned that, within a telecommuting team, there are usually people from diverse time zones. As a manager of such a team, you need to schedule team meetings and other calls during periods that work for every team member. This is known as “time fairness”. And as you can imagine, this won’t be an easy task.
Apart from team meetings, we shall need to think about time differences when setting deadlines. Our colleague living in Delhi should have an equal number of days to finish his task as his teammate from Mumbai.
On the other hand, probably will not have these issues when leading an in-house management team. No matter if our working hours are fixed or flexible, our team will spend at least a couple of hours per day together in the office. Thus, as their leader, you’re able to communicate with them in person and manage their assignments and deadlines with ease & on time
