by Rob Sheppard [Approx. 4-minute read] Unless you’ve been off in your fictional time-traveling DeLorean, you’re likely aware that the way we experience work has undergone a massive change thanks to the global COVID pandemic. Flexible work, online teams, a renewed focus on mental happiness and ‘work/life balance’ are just a few changes of note – and this was on top of the automation that the boffins were talking about as the future of work. Why worry? Worrying about the …
Working from home
If there’s one thing COVID-19 / coronavirus (‘C-19’ for the cool kids) has shown the business world, it’s that remote working is achievable for many different types of roles and duties that might normally have been pushed aside in a request to work from home. Necessity is the mother of all invention as they say. If you have found yourself in this situation or know of friends and business colleagues who are, you might already have started thinking about what …
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and your workplace
To be upfront, this article is not to rehash the official and expert health advice on mitigating transmission of the Coronavirus. Instead, it is to help you PLAN for the employment related issues that will need to be answered. It focuses on the questions we are receiving right now from businesses just like yours (small, medium and large) and also on what we think should be best-practice. TIP: Given the increasing and rapid response in government initiatives taking place, we …