Discover how Belt’s AI-native Work Management software restores visibility and control for managing hybrid work without sacrificing flexibility.
In two preceding articles [1], set out how hybrid and dispersed working have eroded the capacity of managers to manage and explained why firms need better remedies than continually checking-in or traditional project management software. In this concluding piece, I explain how a new Work Management application from Belt, can give firms back the visibility and control that are the keys to effective people management and simultaneously allow lawyers to keep the flexibility of WFH.
They say you can’t manage what you can’t measure. In a hybrid world, we can add: “You can’t manage what you can’t see.” Hybrid, remote, and dispersed working have become established and yet we’ve also established that they create a core business problem. Managers are detached from their teams, they can no longer see what’s going on. The result is that managers are driven to overmanage with too many meetings, too much communication and too much reliance on work management systems that were never designed to fill this particular role.
In the preceding article [2], I introduced an alternative way forward, which harnesses the power of AI-native software to give managers clear, real-time insights into the activities of remote workers. The idea is that by restoring visibility and control, those who want to work remotely still can, while at the same time their bosses can see and understand the work they’re doing and manage people and teams appropriately and effectively once more.
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