Prepare at home for the new postCOVID-19 dawn Leveraging technology to enable teams to prepare for the future
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Neil Robertson, Executive Chairman, Compleat Software Neil is the Executive Chairman of Compleat Software, having previously held the role of CEO at Compleat since April 2008. A 40+ year veteran of the accounting software industry, Neil has a long track record of building and growing global finance application businesses and with new disruptive technologies bringing these to market.
Neil Robertson has steered many organisations through difficult periods and uses his experience to highlight the help that is available to navigate the current difficult times with minimal disruption.
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here are now glimmers of light on the horizon as we slowly start to exit lockdown and each and every business is hard at work making plans for the brave new world that awaits us which may or may not include repeated further restrictions as our economies reset to sustainable future levels. In the immediate future, much of global senior managements’ focus is either on how and when they will be able to re-open their businesses for trading and for all of us, it’s planning how we reopen our offices, shops and hospitality venues whilst addressing social distancing. Equally, how we cope with the likelihood of further lockdowns either locally, regionally or nationally will be challenging and foremost in all of our contingency planning.
managing who is going to be in each day, where they will sit and how you can sanitise every desk each evening – there is also the issue of who will be prepared to travel in.
off the only alternative) when working from home is a viable option with a little investment?
Technology has enabled remote communications during lockdown, with connectivity to every home office, dining room table and There is, understandably, a high sofa now a standard fixture of level of concern from those that team interaction have to use public transport using the now (trains and the tube in ubiquitous online particular) to get to To retain talent, video conferencing. work. For anyone that every business must Virtually all business commutes this way, include the option functions that we know it can be for staff to work from involve recorddensely populated home. keeping and and, for most people, communication can this represents too now be carried out online much of a risk to even and for small investments per contemplate. It is equally hard employee. to see how this will change in the foreseeable future until there is We often consider that not being a vaccine or infection levels have declined substantially. Working from home post-COVID-19
There is also the challenge of working with our employees to aid their return to the workplace. Each individual is different as the level of vulnerability to COVID-19 is not just dependent on them as an individual, but also those they live with. Also, whilst social separation at the offices has its challenges – 72 / Issue 25
In this new world order, for businesses to be fully operational, working from home is going to be essential for some time to come. What employer wants to be held up to the social media spotlight by forcing vulnerable staff to risk their lives (or those of the loved ones they are living with) by demanding office attendance (with being laid XU Magazine - the independent magazine for Xero users, by Xero users.
