Life on a global team isn't necessarily equitable. Employees far from headquarters often have less access to the team leader, and have to deal with regular inconveniences such as late-night calls because they're in a different time zone. As a manager, it's your job to ensure that remote employees aren't carrying an extra burden. Consider rotating the time of weekly team calls so that everyone takes a turn at having the meeting during regular business hours (or at the very least, find the least inconvenient time for your remote employees to participate.) Even small courtesies can help distant team members feel noticed, such as translating meeting times into all the time zones that your people work in. And schedule periodic offsites for the whole team to get together and connect. If your budget allows, you can even hold these meetings in different locations around the globe.
Adapted from "How to Keep a Global Team Engaged," by Andy Molinksy
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