Tips on Working From Home Due to the Coronavirus
By Richard Eisenberg Money & Work Editor
Adobe
Part of the THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW SPECIAL REPORT
With the coronavirus spread, I’ve seen a rush of companies telling employees to work from home, including Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. Long before that, many people had considered the possibility of working remotely. Who could have anticipated a scary health concern would provide the impetus?
I’m one of those people who work from home (editing and writing stories for our Work & Purpose and Money & Policy channels) and am happy to be able to work remotely. We’ve written quite a bit about the pros and cons of remote work. Here, as part of our continuous coverage about the coronavirus, are five Next Avenue stories to help you take the next step toward working at home:
“7 Things to Know if You Want to Work From Home” — As writer Wendy Helfenbaum explains if you have never telecommuted before, you’ll face some new challenges. You may need to reconfigure a room to transform it into an efficient home office. Distractions will abound. And you may have to quickly master new (to you) technology to facilitate communication with your colleagues (more about tech issues in the story below, “Want to Be a Remote Worker? Get These Digital Skills”). In this article, Helfenbaum offers advice about all this.
“How to Get Your Boss to Let You Work From Home” — If your employer hasn’t required you to work from home during the pandemic, and hasn’t offered remote work as an option, you’ll want to read this piece by retirement coach and work-from-home professional Nancy Collamer. In it, she provides tips to help persuade your boss that letting you work from home will be good for both of you.
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“8 Ways to Balance Home and Office Life Under the Same Roof” — The tricky part about working from home is drawing a line between your job and your home life. This is especially true if you don’t have a home office. In this article, Lisa Kanarek offers pointers to prevent working from home from taking over your life.
“4 Ways to Combat the Isolation of Remote Work “ — When you work from home, it’s easy to feel lonely and isolated. After all, you can’t stop by a colleague’s desk to chat or go to lunch with your team members. Here, Nancy Collamer suggests a few tips and techniques to prevent you from feeling lonely as a remote worker — based on her experience and advice from other experts.
“Want to Be a Remote Worker? Get These Digital Skills” — Michelle V. Rafter, an authority on the intersection of work and technology, recommends useful apps for remote work, plus where to go to learn new digital skills.
The 5 Next Avenue Stories About Working From Home:
7 Things to Know if You Want to Work From Home
How to Get Your Boss to Let You Work From Home
8 Ways to Balance Home and Office Life Under the Same Roof
