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As the world has started to see some light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel with a decline in cases and the distribution of vaccines, employers and employees have begun to prepare for the return to the office in a hybrid-remote setting.

For some, the return to the office cannot get here quick enough, for others, the idea of having to battle the morning commute a few days a week is dreadful. With such a variety of individual preferences among executives, managers, and individual contributors,

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2020 showed that employers need to focus on maintaining culture in the workplace more than ever before - especially when it comes to working remotely.

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Are you struggling with navigating work with a distributed or remote workforce? Are you looking for insights on different ways to lead and manage a remote workforce? Do you want to know what the future of work looks like with more remote workers? Kaleem Clarkson is here to answer these and many other questions about leading and managing remote workforces.

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Kaleem Clarkson is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me Inc., a US consultancy which helps businesses optimize their remote employee experience.

Kaleem Clarkson, COO at Blend Me, Inc tells us about the importance of seeking a work-life integration while working remotely. These have not been normal times for remote workers either, and companies have a major role on making their employees experience the benefits of working from home, rather than the disadvantages. Managers need to focus on providing the right tools to avoid putting that much pressure on their teams' well-being.

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This week on the Control the Room Podcast, I’m excited to speak with Kaleem Clarkson, COO and Co-founder of Blend Me, Inc., a consulting firm that cultivates remote employee experiences from onboarding through off-boarding. He has a particular interest in culture-driven organizations.

If you don't see someone in person, how can you develop a real connection with them?

Communicating without a physical workplace can be hard. Many companies and employees who've never been away from a central office for this amount of time are feeling disconnected. But the symptom is not the problem.

To foster a connection to a company's vision and mission, employees need to feel challenged, rewarded, and they need to be able to "feel" the culture, even if they can't physically see it.