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Joy Bruce collaboraterecruitment.com
hilst a lot of employers have not naturally warmed to the idea of allowing employees to work from home, after being ‘strongly advised’ to only go to work if absolutely essentially, I think there has been some positive that has come from the Corona Virus that we have been unexpectedly hit with. If nothing else, it has forced / encouraged companies not only to entrust their staff, but to look at remote working set ups in a way that gets the best out of a situation, with everyone in mind. It can be done and moving forward, may become the new norm.... we need to embrace change and consider these new ways of working, in order to keep up with the ever changing world. Talking from a personal perspective.... When I first started working from home, I must admit, I wasn’t overly convinced that it was the most productive way to get much done. This could have been because I was set up with only my laptop, at my dining room table and the distractions of
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‘home’ around me. In addition, I didn’t feel confident that my employer fully trusted that I was actually doing any work whilst I was at home... I therefore spent a lot of wasted time, proving that I was working - either calling to ‘report in’ or ‘touch base’, emailing updates of tasks achieved or productive conversations had, rather than perhaps focussing my energy on just doing the job at hand and drawing inspiration without the distraction from the outside world or office environment. I have worked in target driven environments for most of my career, so results speak for themselves. KPI’s aside, if I have ever been given a monetary target, my personal aim has always been to smash it! With this in mind, the only way to achieve the end result, has been to work hard. The day I realised that I didn’t have to work in the ‘traditional’ office environment to achieve my own targets, was the day home working really started to have a positive impact on my work / life balance. In order to achieve the work
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