FreshSplash/Getty Maria Haggerty is CEO of Dotcom Distribution, a fulfillment and logistics company. She says it's important for business owner to keep employees accountable while working from home. Let your employees know that making progress matters and expand the definition of success to reward efforts and improvements. Accountability is a word that's tossed around haphazardly in the workplace, especially in the era of remote work. By my estimation, if you were to ask 10 people at the same company to define what it means to them, you'd probably get as many definitions. And therein lies the problem — but also an opportunity.