What You Are Doing is Not Remote Work, It is Coping in a Global Emergency

Our whole company has been working remotely for nine months so inevitably, when the whole of the rest of Germany - and much of the world - was told to do the same, we received a lot of requests asking for help. How can we still work effectively? How do you keep your employees motivated? How do you structure your day? What are the best tools?

We have been doing our best to field these questions, we hosted two free webinars this week both of which were sold out, and have done some QandA sessions for individual companies. We have got loads of tips, tricks, best-practice and no-gos, many of which are also gathered here. 

However, there is one thing that we feel needs to be said: What you are doing here is not remote work. What you are doing is finding ways to cope in an unprecedented global emergency. So here are some alternative FAQs to your burning questions about working from home:

How can you still work effectively as a remote worker?

Let's keep perspective. What is happening here is not remote work. This is an unprecedented emergency situation impacting the whole world. Remote working is a choice, which a company considers, plans for, recruits for and creates structures for. In the current scenario, however, most companies decided to do home office literally overnight. It will take time for everybody to adjust and you probably won't, fully, before all this is over. Accept it, take one step at a time, and be as adaptable as you can to your own changing needs and those of your team members. 

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