Maintaining a productive workforce during coronavirus

‘My advice to managers is to trust your people’

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With focus shifting to wellbeing during lockdown, Jonathan Berry gives his top tips to supporting staff

In some ways we are lucky that we are in this situation now, rather than even a decade ago. Even 10 years ago, plenty of people thought ‘working from home' was a euphemism for taking the day off. As that has changed, the sophistication and reach of tools that allow remote working have grown past all recognition. We can be much more productive at home than we could be back then. The meteoric rise in the share price of Zoom is one example of how popular this tool has become, but Teams and Slack are adding armies of new subscribers too. The problem is there are still many people in our w...

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