{"id":1734,"date":"2020-05-04T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatpeopleinside.com\/uk\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2020-05-04T21:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:07:01","slug":"the-reality-of-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatpeopleinside.com\/peru\/2020\/05\/04\/the-reality-of-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality of Working From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Reality of Working From Home<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you imagine working from home, does it look a little like your<\/strong> home? It probably does \u2013 after all it may be the only reference point you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how much do you know about the living circumstances of your team? Home is now their place of work, sanctioned by you, and you have a duty of care to every employee to ensure they are coping as well as they can in the \u2018new normal\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ask them \u2018Are you OK?\u2019, the almost inevitable answer is yes. Equally, if you launch into the Spanish Inquisition, it\u2019s only going to add to the stress for those people already struggling with Working From Home for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here\u2019s just a short (and far from exhaustive) list of things you need to consider:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your employee lives alone:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Was the contact they had with people at work the main human contact they usually had?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Do they belong to a gym, go to the pub, belong to clubs and societies which is where they usually meet their friends?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Even if they\u2019re happy living alone, do they resent the fact that their home has now also become their workplace and there\u2019s no \u2018escape\u2019?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your employee lives with other people, possibly family but maybe not:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Is their accommodation big enough to provide a separate space to work in?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Are they living with people who are out of work or furloughed so always around, with time on their hands?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Are they, or their partner, trying to home school their children?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Do they have pets that are likely to participate in zoom calls?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Was going to the office a respite from a busy home environment?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 And considering their health:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Does your employee have underlying health conditions?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Are they fearful for their lives with the almost exclusively bad news about the virus?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      If they have a propensity towards mental health problems, is this crisis, and their inability to access alternative locations, likely to make the situation worse?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Are you, as a business, expecting them to achieve the same results as they would have done in their office environment?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Even if goals are reduced, if they can\u2019t achieve them, are they fearful for their jobs and income?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      Are zoom calls horrendous for them because people can see their \u2018private space\u2019?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Employers can\u2019t change the imperative to work from home. That will only be removed when we have the \u2018all clear\u2019 from Government but there are certain factors that could help employers understand if, and where, their people need help without having to rely on them \u2018fessing up\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what are those factors? And how do you measure them without adding to the anxiety of people who aren\u2019t<\/u><\/strong> coping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an assessment business, Great People Inside is used to creating assessments for the recruitment of new people and the development of existing employees and teams. Although the size of the challenge is unprecedented, the essential work of analysing and developing your WFH team hasn\u2019t changed \u2013 it\u2019s what we do, all day, every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And because we customise assessments for specific purposes, we\u2019ve developed a series of new assessments, informed by extensive, independent research, over many years, into the characteristics required for people to successfully work from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These assessments are hugely relevant to the current global situation and will allow you not only to undertake a \u2018health check\u2019 on all of your people (not singling out those you think are struggling), but to respond to what it tells you. With our Partners, we can offer individualised online development, provided by subject experts, to help your people cope with a situation that is far from their \u2018old normal\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our new assessments are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Remote Employee<\/strong> assessment helps you discover if your current employees <\/strong>have the skills needed to be productive and motivated when working remotely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Remote Manager<\/strong> assessment provides key information on the efficiency of managers leading a remote team, assesses their ability to manage different work styles and create vision, motivation and momentum in a remote team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Remote Team<\/strong> assessment provides important information regarding the efficiency of a team when working remotely. It shows the way members interact with one another and, at the same time, presents the optimal conditions in which that team can reach the highest level of productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VUCA Manager<\/strong> assessment identifies leadership potential in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) <\/strong>environment. <\/strong>By measuring capacity and potential, it highlights an individual\u2019s strengths and development gaps relative to the leadership needs of the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Is your team working remotely? Do you know<\/strong> that they\u2019re coping OK with the isolation? Would you like to know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact Great People Inside on uk@greatpeopleinside.com or call us on 01494 573572 and let us help you maximise the impact you have on your organisation AND<\/strong> your people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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