Teleworking is less and less necessary now that the number of Covid infections is declining and more and more companies are operating as they did before the pandemic.
However, the pandemic has definitely changed certain aspects of the mindset of companies and employees.
Flexjobs conducted a survey among 2100 people who worked remotely during the pandemic.
We are experiencing the biggest remote work experiment in history – but many are beginning to imagine life after lockdown. Amid unprecedented global job losses, concerns about transport infrastructure and the continuing need for workplace social distancing, governments are launching back-to-work plans. Meanwhile, the latest US research reveals that 74% of businesses want some workers to permanently work remotely and business leaders are
EasyJet announces two new lines, connecting Toulon-Hyères Airport to London-Gatwick and Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle from June, providing access to many international destinations. Bertrand Godinot, General Manager of EasyJet for France, announced on the 21st March : “ We are very happy to see Toulon-Hyères join our network and thus become the 21st airport served by easyJet in France.
If you, like many people across the world, are now working 100% remotely, you might be worried about the loss of physical face to face time with your team members. Remote collaboration tools help us to compensate this loss allowing regular communication throughout the teleworking day. Yet it seems that a high frequency of team communication could actually reduce collective intelligence.
On 9 August 2005, a certain Brad Neuberg created the very first Coworking space in San Francisco, located within the walls of Spiral Muse, a feminist collective. Neuberg had friends at Spiral Muse and shared his idea with one of them, Elana Auerbach. She agreed the use of the Spiral Muse space twice a week for a total of $300 per month allowing Brad to benefit from all the profits made beyond.
The worldwide health crisis we are going through is undeniably changing our habits and our relationship to work. The year 2020 gave many of us time for reflection and introspection. Giving meaning to what we do is an essentiel condition for our fulfilment and well-being and more than ever relevant in a complex and uncertain professional (VUCA) environment. As long as we know why we do something and what do we do it for, we get better results and become less sensitive to stress.
Your listening skills have a major impact on the effectiveness of your teleworking and the quality of your virtual relationships with others.
We listen to get information, to understand, to learn, influence, persuade and negotiate.
A few tips for active listening:
Pay Attention
Give the speaker your full attention, and acknowledge the message.
Look at the speaker directly through the camera.
Put aside distracting thoughts.
Avoid being distracted by environmental factors
