Our modern, post-pandemic world continues to evolve into a new era of work. As workplaces increasingly move towards remote or at least hybrid environments, companies are sorting out how to build infrastructures that support ongoing culture, performance and customer satisfaction.
Our law firm has been virtual since we started out in 2017. Not only do we advise clients every day about their virtual workplace legal risks, but we experiment every day with virtual approaches and issues internally with our own team to continue to build a healthy and happy virtual business.
Here are the top 3 employment law risks we run across when businesses are solidifying their remote workplace.
#1 Clarity on Roles
The traditional management style of physically observing how people work is grandfathered out with a virtual workplace. Instead, the main criteria of success is focused on output rather than input.
To support strong output results, it is critical employees understand the specific requirements, duties and responsibilities of their job. This includes setting out clear expectations of how to do work, where things are in a digital environment, what tools are available to do the job, who to talk to if issues arise, who to talk to if there are digital or tech issues and general resources available to do the job.
Employers cannot discipline or fire an employee who didn’t know about a process, rule, or benchmark that they were breaching or failing to meet.
The physical workplace is...
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