Understanding your teams remote work challenges

Peter du ToitI'm the founder of FutureWork IQ where I spend my time assisting businesses to improve their climate literacy so as to understand the projected impacts from the expanding climate crisis and how to adapt their workplaces in the face of these impacts.

This from the recent KPMG report Covid-19 and the American worker.

“40% say they were left to navigate the changes with inadequate resources.”

Wow.

Most commonly cited challenges from transitioning to remote work:

1) Caring for children
2) Not having a workplace or desk
3) Not having access to shared folders or collaboration tools*

*Shared documents and folders, as well as collaboration tools, are a critical piece to a well designed digital workplace that allows for anywhere work. There are so many tools available to overcome this listed challenge.

Take just one example. If you are in the Microsoft ecosystem turning on Office 365 for your team will immediately give you access to shared documents and folders with OneDrive and you have access to Teams which you can use for collaboration.