Home Office – Problems and Challenges of Business Management

Надя Миронова; Атанас Бояджиев

doi:10.37075/RP.2024.5.04

Authors

Assoc. Prof. Dr Nadia Mironova Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author
Atanas Boyadzhiev, PhD Student Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37075/RP.2024.5.04

Keywords:

Challenges, Remote work, Motivation, Management, Control

M10, M12

Abstract

Work organisation, coordination of processes and control are key effectiveness factors, that are tested in remote work. Along with the undisputable advantages of remote work, problem arise that can return this practice in its start position of unpopular and denied. The paper contains an author's model of the factors for optimizing the management of remote work, based on a study of 4 scientific articles.

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