From the course: Establishing Work from Home Policies
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Lead with flexibility and compassion
From the course: Establishing Work from Home Policies
Lead with flexibility and compassion
- When you're in an office, it's easy to control and predict the type of circumstances people will be surrounded by, like cubicles and office chairs in a meeting area. But when you're at home, everybody's circumstances are different, which is why you need to account for that in your work from home policy. Let's go into some circumstances that people might have. Your employees might be parents and they have to pick kids up from school at certain times. Kids might be homeschooled, right, and you have to account for those learning sessions. People might be taking care of loved ones who need special medical attention. Or you might be living with roommates, or your pets, that all need special care and special attention that you have to work in throughout your work day. You also want to think about scheduling. People might be living in different time zones, or people's daily routines or things that they need to account for in…