Can Remote Workers Become a Burden on the Company That Hired Them?

On The Startup Chat, Steli Efti and Hiten Shah go through Hiten's 2019 Remote Work Report, written with Hiten's cofounder Marie. Steli says people prize the freedom of working remotely, then fail if they do not have the discipline to match it. Those hires run into emotional problems they have not dealt with, and the employer is stuck too. He says a company retreat does not fix that. Without discipline, remote work does not succeed, and the cost lands on the person who did the hiring as well as on the employee. Hiten points listeners to the report at bit.ly/remotereport.