Overview: Any business that is interested in establishing a successful r/m arrangement will need to include it into the framework of the firm. They should not dangle it like a prize, suffer, or be bullied into entering into a partnership that is not suitable for their organization. There should be no need for employees who perform better at home to be concerned about the possibility that their chances of being promoted within the company will be diminished due to the fact that they will not have enough face time with their coworkers or that they will be subjected to the wrath of those who remain at the office. Neither should they be concerned that their agreement will be taken away from them for no apparent reason at some point in the future. The culture of every workplace is unique. The difficulty lies in the fact that if a business wants to have a remote and/or rotating workforce, even if it is just a tiny portion of its workforce, then it must accept this reality and incorporate that mentality into the culture of the workplace via each and every member of its ranks. the concept that interactions between employees and management improve not just the lives of the employee but also the purpose of the firm. In the event that this is implemented, a r/m plan will not discourage anybody, even those who are employed in the office, but rather encourage them to work from home. In the end, working from home is not a new kind of job; rather, it is merely a different manner or location to work. the following topics were discussed at the session: When it comes to your own firm, you should consider the productivity argument in comparison to the creativity and collaboration argument. It is not anyone else’s responsibility to create the advantages of a remote work environment without anybody working outside the office. The fourteen characteristics that you need to look for in your employees in order to determine whether or not they will be successful working independently of you assisting your remote workers to achieve the same level of success (or even more) working elsewhere as opposed to working in the office managing from the outside in – The twelve characteristics of your managers that you must see (and not observe) in order to determine whether or not they are capable of effectively managing remote workers how to “see”, encourage, and capture innovative leadership emerging in unexpected places and within unexpected people – when you don’t see them every day unleashing the ambitions that are alive in everyone and keeping their goals aligned with your company even if those people are not physically on site negative disrupting dysfunctional managers – usually hiding in plain sight; what to do about them and with them because they will ruin (or try to ruin) all your r/m plans and their r/m employees arrangements, if not their careers a workplace with a cohesive culture that does not create a stereotype of what constitutes “success” or on whom success is modeled, and that success is not dependent on where someone’s physical worksite is located; what to do with employees at the office who are losing productivity because they are worried about what others are doing at home or elsewhere; and how to create a workplace that has a cohesive culture. Encouragement and acceptance of independence, as well as placing individuals in control of their own professional paths, as opposed to the firm assigning one who will be to their advantage: generalists in human resources management, human resources managers, plant managers, and company owners Teri Morning, owner of her own human resources consulting business, has the degrees of mba, ms, sphr, and sphr-ca. She has more than fifteen years of expertise in human resource management and training in a wide range of professional sectors, such as retail, distribution, architecture, engineering, consulting, manufacturing (union), public sector, and both for-profit and non-profit business structures. For more than ten years, she has provided advisory services to employers on their issues and has also provided training to managers and workers. She takes great pleasure in traveling widely around the country, meeting and working with people from a wide variety of enterprises. Teri has a master’s degree in human resource development with a concentration in conflict management, in addition to a master’s degree in business administration. At the same time that she possesses the dual SHRM certification of a senior professional in human resources (sphr) and senior professional in human resources – california, she was certified by the state of Indiana in mediation skills. She is also recognized as a Myers-Briggs practitioner (sphr-ca).