The sudden shift to remote work and school for huge sections of our population leaves many trying to adjust to a new normal: working remotely in light of COVID-19 concerns.
And while the general gravitation toward working outside the office isn’t a brand new trend (a Small Biz Genius article from late 2019 describes a 140 percent increase in remote work over the last 15 years), the current mass scale of people working from home during a global pandemic is uncharted territory.
On the surface, working from home offers obvious advantages that can aid productivity by reducing or eliminating activities that often demand an inordinate amount of time (no in-person meetings, events or commute times to the office, , etc.). But as many are discovering, those advantages are offset by new challenges: finding quiet spaces to work, wrangling with new technologies, ensuring kids are focused on at-home learning activities and schoolwork, and balancing the needs of other family members who are also working from home and/or need care.
How do you keep your work productivity level as high – or even higher – than what your normal office environment allows? If you’re looking for tips, we’ll save you the search time. Innovate Carolina has pulled together the insights of experts outlined in several articles that we found particularly salient to the new work reality.