As part of their continuing efforts to support enterprise customers and their workers during the current crisis, Udacity has created and released a free course in collaboration with Upwork to promote best practices for remote team management as many companies find themselves working with distributed teams for the first time. A one-hour course, Managing Remote Teams will help managers and other team leaders learn the tools and develop the skills and strategies needed to hire, manage, and optimise remote teams.

“As businesses strive to continue day-to-day operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, they need to adapt their processes to what is quickly becoming the new normal,” said Gabriel Dalporto, CEO, Udacity. “Remote work has replaced on-site interactions for countless workers across the globe. While many tasks can be completed from home, the best practices for doing so — and for managing this newly distributed workforce — are still something of an enigma to many team leads. We wanted to provide a solution to help our customers better understand how to operate in an online workspace. Upwork proved to be the perfect partner to help us close that knowledge gap.”

“The rapid pivot to adopting fully remote teams can be jarring for organisations. We are working to provide solutions that can help our customers, as well as the general public, successfully adapt to working with a distributed workforce. By partnering with Udacity, we’re able to have the greatest impact for those in need of skills development,” said Hayden Brown, President and CEO, Upwork.