Virtual Teams

Four steps managers can take to help establish a culture of trust and honesty in remote and hybrid work environments.

Giving employees flexibility is becoming crucial to reducing stress and building their confidence in the organization.

The authors of a new book suggest tactics for changing a meeting-driven corporate culture.

The practices of astronauts offer a model for successfully adapting to remote and hybrid work.

The post-pandemic era requires a leadership mindset change about jobs and managerial expectations.

The collective intelligence of remote teams, synthetic data for machine learning, and delegation to bridge virtual distance.

In the context of remote work, leaders must reconsider conventional delegation methods.

When remote leaders adopt an empowering leadership style, they are free to think bigger, achieve more, and worry less.

Fostering tech-mediated collaboration, dignity in employee data use, and in-house social intrapreneurship.

Virtual, tech-mediated collaboration carries risks of isolation, exclusion, surveillance, and self-censorship.

Top MIT SMR article topics include work and strategy redesign, and developing leadership skills for the hybrid future.

Leaders can help employees build the social connections that weakened during the pandemic by addressing three key areas.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.

“Absorbing by observation” while working remotely, prospering in turbulent times with dynamic rules, and centering ESG in quarterly earnings calls.

New hires are at risk of losing the subtly communicated knowledge shared through in-person work.

MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.

Collaborating remotely can improve creativity in ways that many teams didn’t realize pre-pandemic.

Organizations have become flexible about where and when employees work. But there are trade-offs.

Four team management practices have been key to navigating the initial pivot to virtual workplaces.

Introducing our summer issue, and collaborating productively on remote teams.