Despite the decline of lifelong employment and significant changes to how companies operate, the old adage about your staff members being your biggest assets still rings true today. Whether a worker stays with you for a year or a decade, it’s imperative that you invest in training them from the outset. Failing to do [...]
Running a business with maximum efficiency is rather like playing a complex strategy game. In other words, it’s significantly easier to handle when all your pieces are directly in front of you. Trying to play chess with your pieces spread across various boards throughout the country (or even the world) is awkward, to say [...]
If there’s one silver lining that people talk about remote working, is work-life balance. But, does working from home actually help you attain the work-life balance that you need for your life? Yes, you are exposed to several mediums to get your work done from home without involving the constant need to step out [...]
One of the best things about working remotely is flexibility — it allows you to work almost anywhere. And while many remote workers will spend most of their time working from home (WFH), many of us now see the need to balance WFH with other workspace solutions such as a flexible office or coworking [...]
Your work from home (WFH) commute may currently consist of walking from the bedroom to the coffee maker to the kitchen table, but there’s no reason to let your professional development flatline. As the world rallies around remote work and WFH trends, the opportunities to network, teach, learn and grow your skill set have [...]
It’s been roughly one year now since the novel coronavirus started wreaking havoc on our lives. From having to stay indoors and social distancing, to wearing masks and washing hands all the time, this ‘new normal’ is like nothing we had seen before. Aside from the social effects, our businesses have also suffered a [...]
COVID-19 has undeniably accelerated the work-from-home (WFH) trend. Companies around the world have successfully shifted to a remote model—some of them permanently. But WFH has its limitations. Anyone who has struggled with isolation, loneliness, lack of productivity, or just plain boredom walking from the desk to the kitchen coffee pot and back again all [...]
Zoom is not the answer for everything. The video conferencing tool has done a lot of the heavy lifting during Covid, but eventually you’ll need a space to meet colleagues or clients in-person. You may be at that point now, or simply need to get out of your home for a boost of productivity. [...]
Work-From-Home (WFH), now a necessity for many corporate workers, has been an upgrade to the quality of life for some, but not for everyone or not all of the time. On the positive side, no more exhausting commute, more flexibility in work hours, better control of the work-life balance. On the other hand, the [...]
The last seven months have seen a sea change in the way we work. As COVID-19 forced many workers out of the office and into home offices or kitchen tables, the remote revolution got very real. No longer was remote work something forward-leaning or distributed companies could do, it became the norm for many [...]
