As companies embrace remote work, managers need to adopt strategies tailored to globally distributed teams. In this course you'll learn the tools and develop the skills and strategies needed to hire, manage, and optimize remote teams. Udacity has developed this course in partnership with Upwork, the world's leading professional freelance platform. Managing Remote Teams gives you practical advice on how to build a culture that embraces remote workers and delivers bottomline results for your business. After taking this course, you'll be able to quickly apply remote-team best practices to your existing workforce, or begin building your remote workforce from scratch.