The New York Times has a story this morning about Microsoft and their CEO's decision to move to a Work From Home (WFH) approach in their Redmond HQ and elsewhere. These stories are going to become more and more commonplace. It's not though just about having people working from home, it's what you do with your workers each day.
Here are ten tips to help keep work going:
- Have a daily audio team stand up. Put it on the calendar.
- Be available by having your comms apps and services both on your desktop/laptop and your mobile devices
- Provide your team members their own conferencing service access. Assign each person an account of their own.
- Know how to check quality of the home internet. Run tests that ensure your connection is stable regularly.
- Keep things charged. This includes headsets, mobile phones tablets and laptops
- Make sure access to data is possible. VPN's and other remote access tools will allow work to keep going.
- Don't over communicate. If you worked part time remotely with your staff don't change the rhythm, but be ready to help others who used to work only in the office.
- Be respectful of workers private time. Allow them to go into DND (do not disturb) mode throughout the day.
- Make sure your devices are regularly checked for malware and viruses.
- Teach your team proper security protocols to allow for safe, private and protected
Uncertain times brings opportunity, with those being managed. Right now the opportunity is to define the future of work and in turn the future of business.
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