{"id":9286,"date":"2025-06-20T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/us\/?post_type=resources&p=9286"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:52:03","slug":"top-5-remote-work-training-development-challenges","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/us\/resources\/hr-strategy\/flexible-work\/top-5-remote-work-training-development-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Challenges of Remote Work for Training and Development and How to Overcome Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Brightmine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite companies increasingly calling employees back to the office<\/a>, flexible and hybrid working remains popular. This requires organizations to adapt their practices to accommodate remote workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Training and development (T&D) is one area impacted by this trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic forced T&D leaders to adjust their practices almost overnight. They delivered onboarding, reskilling, and compliance-related training remotely to dispersed employees across the country. Despite this some challenges remain. Here we look at the top five challenges T&D leaders face and offer some insights and best practices<\/a> on how to address the challenges of remote training programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Ensuring training is compliant in the jurisdiction where the employee works.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before remote work became common, employers only had to worry about compliance issues in their physical locations. Multi-national companies, of course, were well-versed in meeting a wide range of compliance requirements. But smaller companies simply focused on a single geographic area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, employers with remote workers must make sure they meet the training needs of the places where employees work from home or other locations. This includes accounting for state and local training requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, sexual harassment, diversity and anti-discrimination, workplace safety, data privacy and security training requirements all vary significantly across states and localities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staying up-to-date on local and state changes helps ensure compliance, but it can be a challenging task. Fortunately, Brightmine can help-the HR & Compliance Center<\/a> provides updates, guides, and resources. These help companies stay compliant with changing requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Developing skills that are not typically taught in an online setting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Even prior to the pandemic, many companies were offering a combination of synchronous and asynchronous training for employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all online training is practical or considered effective. For instance, driving, working with machinery, and some forms of soft skills training. Companies had to quickly change their methods during the pandemic. They needed to offer training online for many topics and skills. It wasn’t easy, but it had to be done. That remains true today for employees working off-site and in remote locations. One particular area of importance for remote workers is training in the development of collaboration skills. A study of more than 60,000 Microsoft workers<\/a> during the pandemic found that remote work caused disruptions in collaboration. It also created challenges for communication, which often happened at different times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately new methods have emerged to improve training delivery and effectiveness of online learning, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n