Date Time How does home working change managerial duties? Associate Professor Christine Ipsen was among the first to study the reactions to the increased home working during the corona crisis. Here she answers some questions about challenges and possibilities for distance management. What characterizes distance management? An obvious characteristic feature is the distance between manager and employee. The distance may be both geographical and temporal, i.e. working at different times of the day or in different time zones. Distance management is already being used in many industries, for example in the transport sector, in home care, and in international companies with departments and branches worldwide, where employees and managers may be located in different countries. The new aspect under the COVID-19 crisis is that suddenly many more managers had to become distance managers, even thought this was not the managerial task they were used to.