PART A: a coursework assignment (75% of overall grade) with a maximum of 2,500 words Background The recent global pandemic has had a significant and durable impact on how people work. Many organisations have reconsidered their office-based approach and have taken their entire workforce online, with employees working in a distributed fashion (i.e. where team members aren’t based in the same physical location). You are a Human Resources consultant and you have specialised in advising businesses on how organisations can operate effectively with a distributed workforce. You have been tasked by a new client, (The Company), to strategically advise them on how to manage that change successfully. You have been asked to produce a report outlining the risks and benefits of distributed work and providing them with specific recommendations. Required To complete this assessment, you are required to do the following: In the first part of your report (approx. 2,000 words), you will outline the key benefits and challenges of a distributed workforce from a people management and leadership perspective. To do so, please consider different aspects of your HR strategy, such as talent acquisition, employee engagement, team development, performance management etc. In the second part of your report (approx. 500 words), you will analyse and evaluate how (The Company) can successfully manage a distributed workforce and provide them with practical recommendations on how they can sustainably continue to operate remotely in future. You should evidence your arguments with academic theories and case studies, drawing upon experiences from the pandemic and critically research and apply in your coursework relevant academic theory and sources, course concepts and frameworks and industry material. Your work must be fully referenced using the Harvard system.

PART A: a coursework assignment (75% of overall grade) with a maximum of 2,500 words Background The recent global pandemic has had a significant and durable impact on how people work. Many organisations have reconsidered their office-based approach and have taken their entire workforce online, with employees working in a distributed fashion (i.e. where team members aren’t based in the same physical location). You are a Human Resources consultant and you have specialised in advising businesses on how organisations can operate effectively with a distributed workforce. You have been tasked by a new client, (The Company), to strategically advise them on how to manage that change successfully. You have been asked to produce a report outlining the risks and benefits of distributed work and providing them with specific recommendations. Required To complete this assessment, you are required to do the following: In the first part of your report (approx. 2,000 words), you will outline the key benefits and challenges of a distributed workforce from a people management and leadership perspective. To do so, please consider different aspects of your HR strategy, such as talent acquisition, employee engagement, team development, performance management etc. In the second part of your report (approx. 500 words), you will analyse and evaluate how (The Company) can successfully manage a distributed workforce and provide them with practical recommendations on how they can sustainably continue to operate remotely in future. You should evidence your arguments with academic theories and case studies, drawing upon experiences from the pandemic and critically research and apply in your coursework relevant academic theory and sources, course concepts and frameworks and industry material. Your work must be fully referenced using the Harvard system.