What sorts of people make the best remote employees? There's one important quality you should look for -- optimism. There's a second quality you should avoid -- people pleasing. Unfortunately, the two can seem very similar, and it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between them.

Here's why you want one and not the other, and how to tell them apart.

1. Why you should look for optimists.
The number-one quality most experts say to look for in a remote employee is self-motivation. And for good reason. Remote employees won't have you there to deliver a pep talk to them and they can't easily drop by to talk to you or a co-worker if they're feeling frustrated or unsure of themselves. Stuck home alone, they need to "arrive at work" every morning with the conviction that what they will do that day matters and that they can do it successfully. That takes optimism, according Sara Sutton, founder of the remote job search site FlexJobs. 

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