Presence Isn’t a Green Dot. What Social Presence Theory Says About Your Remote Team.

Presence Isn’t a Green Dot. What Social Presence Theory Says About Your Remote Team.

Somewhere on your screen right now there is a small green circle next to a colleague’s name. How much does that little green dot really tell you?

It tells you their application is running and their keyboard has been touched recently. It does not tell you whether they are deep in something they should not be pulled out of, whether they are two minutes from a customer call, whether they are stuck in a meeting, or whether they have been quietly struggling all week with tasks.

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Where Your Team Works Is Settled. How They Work Is The Real Question.

Where Your Team Works Is Settled. How They Work Is The Real Question.

The return-to-office argument has mostly gone quiet. What replaced it is harder to solve. How do you run a team when a few people are at desks down the hall, a few are three time zones away, and the arrangement shifts again next quarter?

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