Remote workers can be pushed to deliver no differently than on-site. The main difference is making TEAMS gel, especially with new hires, and especially especially(!) with new hires that are fresh graduates. The latter often need some supervision, along with making sure they learn good, professional, practices and behaviors.
Seasoned pro’s can be given tasks and delivery dates, then be trusted to meet them. It usually becomes clear if one of them is a problem. We do lots of face to face webex style meetings. I’d argue the main instance where you need to be together is white-board brainstorming, when it isn’t clear what is needed to be done or how to go about it.
We had a policy of 3 days in the office, Wednesday required. It’s usually enough for such sessions to happen.
I trained many new employees.
On those occasions I would spend one week in an office with them—theirs or mine—a very intense week with long days.
The rest of the coaching was done remotely until I was comfortable they had mastered their work.
In some cases it took a few months, in others it took up to a year.
There was no need for ongoing face to face meeting.
It was very easy to measure their output and to answer any questions they had.