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I've had to adjust to new office-mates while working from home!

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I've had to adjust to new office-mates while working from home!

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Sometimes I sneakily make lunch during meetings...

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Sometimes I sneakily make lunch during meetings...

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While always paying attention of course!

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Working from home was a challenge at the beginning but was able to make it work and now, my set-up at home allows me to work as if I am in the office unless they need me in person at the office.

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“Yes, absolutely, working home alone was easier for me to find ways and sharpen my knowledge and skills. Being introvert, the pandemic taught me to stay productive while working from home. I do office work and households at the same time. Also taught me to be an experimental Chef 😊. I find it a good thing that am no longer conscious of what time of the day. With these new ways of working, work and personal life balance is definitely possible.”

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•“The mode of working changed to almost 100% virtual. It has pros and cons, but personally, I think it has more advantages in terms of accessibility and efficacy. I hope VR becomes more popular than the virtual meetings will be feeling more like face-to-face meetings retaining the advantage of virtual meetings.”

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“Yes, definitely my ways of working shifted to relying on virtual means more and more. Preparation for virtual meetings takes more energy, time, human resources, and internal coordination”

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•“I learned I am slightly more productive working from home than working from the office. I found it easy to adapt to working in a virtual environment and see the possibility to connect to more people and be part of different activities.

•Get used to be connected virtually, but realizing some advantages of face-to-face relationship as well as advantages of working virtually”

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Using online collaborative tools more than ever, which has been useful in getting things done efficiently, but still not quite the same as in-person brainstorming sessions as online meetings can be more rigid/formal – hoping to find the right balance while we are all working from home.

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Many people mentioned they have learned to:
- to be more flexible, listen to team members more, and encourage them to be more open to help balance the distance and remote learning
to focus on priorities and better balance my instinct to want to contribute and achieve as much as possible.
- to find a way of working that is flexible and responsive, but also respects people’ work/life balance and boundaries.
- to be more engaging through remote working and continue to collaborate with and learn from others

- To effectively & virtually work in a team, improved understanding in taking up others opinion/views virtually in absence of body language and lead the team in difficult time and taking decision in consensus.

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Its allowed better collaborative opportunities, with flexibility and greater productivity.

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Being used to face-to-face interaction, handshakes, and lunch gatherings, working from homes, facing computer screens and doing online meetings, disrupt usual patterns of working behavior.

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Need to wear eyeglasses all day as are in front of laptop all day. Going to work in PJs, casual or no clothes.

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There is a sense of everyone is now ‘reachable’ compared to before; it’s easier now to talk with and get answers from almost everyone as we can easily connect via virtual chats.

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HPS team has been brought much closer together by continuous engagement on MS Teams, but also within its own bubble without the opportunity of informal information sharing.

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“Besides the obvious in terms of that we don’t go to office now for the most part, there is a limit to how a persons way of working has or could change. For instance, if someone was a micromanager before COVID-19, they will be a micro-manager during and after Covid-19. The fact you now have to communicate virtually really doesn’t make you stop being a micromanager. So a lot has changed, mainly the medium in which we communicate, not the style, frequency or intent of that communication.”