Business leaders have an opportunity to listen, evaluate and explore these benefits look to ensure their continuity as the world emerges from the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
As we reflect on the present and weeks ahead, it is hard to predict what the returning working world will be like.
However, businesses may learn to trust remote working and flexible hours more, and their staff may discover potential work-life benefits they would like to retain. But why is balance important, and what processes will evolving businesses need if the nine-to-five culture is to change?
5 Reasons why work-life balance is so important
Work-life balance is about separating personal and professional lives without allowing one to encroach on the other. Both are important, neither should be neglected. The five main reasons why you absolutely must maintain a healthy work-life balance.
1. To maintain your mental health
2. To ensure your physical health and wellbeing
3. It increases productivity
4. Become a more rounded individual
5. You only get one life
Businesses will be able to evaluate their productivity working with remote staff.
Everyone brings certain strengths to a meeting—or weaknesses
But when those meetings become video meetings as more and more people work from home, those strengths and weaknesses can get magnified.
The behaviours can influence the agenda, the discussions, and the outcome of your meetings.
What to do? Here’s a rundown of the seven best and seven worst personalities in your video meetings, along with some helpful advice on dealing with the bad actors.
Poly enables your workforce the flexibility and freedom in how, when and where they work.
EVOLVE. RECONNECT. CREATE.
Many employees are heading back to the office, which means giving people flexibility and freedom in how, when and where they work. It’s about creating environments that foster productivity, collaboration, innovation and safety. Poly end-to-end solutions elevate the experience of Microsoft Teams, Zoom or any other meeting service and enable organizations to adapt their infrastructure to changing work styles and technologies. All these solutions can be managed centrally to maximize your investments, while easing management and support. Poly is changing the way businesses think about location, technology and human connections.
EncorePro 525 headset and EagleEye Mini camera enable seamless call center audio and video in the home office.
Poly Elara 60 mobile phone station with Voyager Focus UC and Poly Studio video bar provide an executive quality audio and video collaboration solution for the home office.
