{"id":36036,"date":"2022-06-06T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/?p=36036"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:34:56","slug":"interviewing-for-remote-jobs-a-guide-to-evaluating-whether-a-company-has-great-remote-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/interviewing-for-remote-jobs-a-guide-to-evaluating-whether-a-company-has-great-remote-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing For Remote Jobs? A Guide to Evaluating Whether a Company Has Great Remote Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this segment of \u201cOffice Optional with Larry English<\/a>,\u201d Larry discusses how you can discover if a company’s culture is a good fit when interviewing for remote roles.<\/h2>\n
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As the Great Reshuffle churns on, employees continue to look for new opportunities that better align with their desires for work-life balance and flexibility.<\/p>\n

According to the 2022 ADP People at Work report<\/a>, 64 percent of employees would seek out a new job if they were forced back to the office full time. More than half of employees would accept a pay cut rather than give up flexibility and at least some time working remotely.<\/p>\n

As the Great Reshuffle churns on, employees continue to look for new opportunities that better align with their desires for work-life balance and flexibility. The recent Microsoft Word Trend Index<\/a> found that employees highly value positive culture, mental health and wellbeing benefits, flexible work hours and generous paid vacation time.<\/p>\n

So how do you ensure you land at an organization that has a positive remote culture and truly supports remote work? Here\u2019s what to look out for during the recruiting process:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remote or hybrid work has full buy-in from the C-suite.<\/h2>\n

A lack of enthusiastic support from company leaders could be a huge red flag \u2014 the last thing you want to do is land a new job only to suddenly have to go back to the office full time or on company-mandated days. During interviews, be sure to ask why a company offers remote work. Does it sound as if they offer it begrudgingly because employees demand it? Or are they happy to grant employees the flexibility because they believe it\u2019s a better way of working?<\/p>\n

Candidates aren\u2019t excluded based on geography.<\/h2>\n

If the job listing specifies employees must be within a small radius of the company\u2019s headquarters, that could be a warning sign. While requiring employees to be in a certain area isn\u2019t a guarantee the company hasn\u2019t fully embraced remote work, it does mean you\u2019ll want to ask some questions about its approach to remote work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company has established remote work policies.<\/h2>\n

When Covid-19 sent organizations into remote mode overnight, most just winged it, doing their best in the face of an unprecedented crisis.<\/p>\n

Well, that was more than two years ago. If companies are going to permanently embrace remote work, they\u2019ve had plenty of time to intentionally build policies to support remote workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some signs that a company has a well-thought-out hybrid workplace strategy<\/a>:<\/p>\n