I believe the most important element of successful remote work as a FT employee (not a contractor) is to not be forgotten.
When working on a team or working in management, so many decisions are decided outside of meetings. As a remote employee or manager, you need to go to great lengths to make yourself available at a moments notice through slack, zoom, etc.
I think a good way of mitigating this is by having built good rapport with your coworkers previously: people you're in great terms or are friends with are more likely to miss you, and thus less prone to forgetting about you. So ideally a remote worker would spend some in-office time first, building those relationships (of course, that's not always possible).
[+] [-] ktaylor|7 years ago|reply
When working on a team or working in management, so many decisions are decided outside of meetings. As a remote employee or manager, you need to go to great lengths to make yourself available at a moments notice through slack, zoom, etc.
Don't become forgotten...and then irrelevant.
[+] [-] lbrito|7 years ago|reply
I think a good way of mitigating this is by having built good rapport with your coworkers previously: people you're in great terms or are friends with are more likely to miss you, and thus less prone to forgetting about you. So ideally a remote worker would spend some in-office time first, building those relationships (of course, that's not always possible).