INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
who could literally spin their chair 180 degrees to say the same thing? Have you not spent 45 minutes reading and responding to an email
chain that a five-minute conversation down the hallway could have addressed?In a physical workplace that is digitised to the teeth, we can
get away with using tools inefficiently
Knowing that we can spin the chair or walk down the hall gives us permission to do so
Now, we have to use our digital tools to their fullest potential
Our communications, processes, and handoffs must be impeccable
to your department, there are some patterns and common needs in a remote work environment
Coders (and marketers) gravitate to systems like Asana, Basecamp, Trello, Jira, and Workfront.Particularly in a remote work setting, we need
Project management will give some order to the groundhog days.If you can't spin your chair, how do you talk?In business, there are different
versions of conversations
And there are many others, mostly done through email
They let you spin the chair around
You need a way to talk.How do we get things we need?Have you ever counted the number of the emails you receive that entail person A, a
coworker, asking person B, you, for something persons C, D, or E might have, maybe, delivered to you sometime last month?In a physical
setting, we can triangulate the location of any file, folder, or image
Whether your team uses Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, a digital asset management system (DAM) etc., you need a place where people can scoop
their own ice cream instead of lining up and waiting for a coworker to do it.Are we making a difference?Without the in-person stand-ups,
Regardless of what department you work in, a system to measure your impact is priceless.In marketing, we look to social and content
analytics not just for validation, but to learn from our decisions and do better next time
Many IT people find satisfaction in resolving tickets faster and eliminating recurring problems
Give yourself the pleasure of knowing you made a difference and the awareness to rise to a higher potential.Some perspectiveI wish I could
evicted from our usual routines, there is a chance to see anew the way we worked before the crisis, and the way we work within it
Head of Implementation at Widen
