If you’re reading this at work, there’s a good chance you’re working from home. The Covid-19 pandemic led more than 16 million U.S. workers to begin working remotely. Before the pandemic, a striking 86 percent of employees who had the option of working from anywhere chose to do so. Considering the clear benefits of remote work to employee engagement and business efficiency, it’s little surprise working from home has become the new normal. But now that we’ve all been working remotely for months, we know there are remote working challenges as well as advantages.

The biggest challenges of working remotely range from technological to social to personal—but despite their complexity, there are immediate and long term solutions to help us get the most out of working from home. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at five common challenges faced by a remote workforce and examine best practices to…