How Are You Helping Your Staff Stay Connected?
A simple tool can help deal with one of your work-from-home challenges
According to my work contract my place of employment is a medium-sized desk in large London skyscraper with an impressive view. For most of this year, along with so many others, my actually place of employment has been a small-sized desk with a view of my driveway.
This is not another article on the challenges of working-from-home, the need to get out for walk-and-talk meetings, or the importance of a good desk set-up. All those points are well covered elsewhere.
This is a short, sharp share on how we overcame one of the surprising lessons of lockdown:
None of us knew which colleagues live close by to us
Where is Your Home?
Sure, you tend to have a sense of where people live, based on the complaints about the journey to work, or a comment about what they did at the weekend. But unless it happens to be an area you know well you’ve probably only got a general sense of the vague direction or maybe the nearest large town.
As the UK exited its first round of lockdown in the summer it was clear we’d not be able to return to the office any time soon. So, a…
