Adjusting to Remote Work During the Coronavirus Crisis

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, says that there are simple ways leaders can help their employees stay productive, focused, and psychologically healthy as they work from home during the current global pandemic. The right technology tools and clear and constant communication are more important than ever. She recommends that managers do an official remote-work launch, carefully plan and facilitate virtual meetings, and pay extra attention to workers' behavior. For individual contributors, it's critical to maintain a routine but also embrace flexibility, especially if you're in the house with family.

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0:00.0	How do you navigate gender in your workplace?
0:04.0	HBR's fan favorite podcast Women at Work is back with personal stories, the newest research,
0:09.2	and practical advice on navigating disability, career failures, and joining a board.
0:14.0	Listen for free to H-BRA's women at work wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HPR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard.
0:36.0	We're taping this show in the middle of a global health crisis.
0:47.0	The coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally changing the way many organizations operate.
0:52.0	Governments and businesses around the world
0:54.1	are telling those with symptoms to self-quarantine
0:56.8	and everyone else to practice social distancing.
1:00.1	For a great many of us then,
1:01.7	remote work is our new reality.
1:04.0	How do corporate leaders, managers, and individual workers make this sudden shift?
1:09.0	What can we do to maintain productivity, ease anxiety, and continue to effectively collaborate with
1:15.1	both colleagues and external stakeholders.
1:18.7	How quickly can we implement current best practices or develop new ones.
1:23.0	Finally, could this big transition change the way we do business forever?
1:28.0	Our guest today has spent two decades helping companies learn how to manage disperse teams, and she's here to give us some advice learn how to manage dispersed teams and she's here to give us
1:34.0	some advice on how to cope with the current situation.
1:36.5	Sadal Mealy is a professor at Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting
1:41.1	firm Global Matters.
1:42.2	Siddal thanks so much for joining us today. and founder of the consulting firm Global Matters.
1:43.0	Sadal, thanks so much for joining us today.
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