How to Manage a Remote Team Without Going Postal

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Managing Editor of a remote editorial team has around 26 people from seven different countries writing for various magazines every day. Managing such an eclectic team requires open dialogue and listening to each team member’s story. The only members of our writing staff who have actually met each other are the ones who referred someone to work with us. We rely on such referrals as the applicant usually applies after job shadowing the team member and finding out exactly what the job entails. The answer for me lies in humanizing remote workers instead of expecting automatons who do everything on command, and it takes work to keep all the parties happy.