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When lockdowns were implemented across the country at the onset of the pandemic, employers and business owners worried that the work-from-home setup will negatively impact productivity. On top of this, they worried that businesses will not survive. Almost a year later, we look into how the pandemic has affected employee performance, taking into consideration several factors. 1. Personal and private workspace There are several advantages to working from home, and one that is most appreciated by employees is having their...Read More

When governments around the world ordered cities and states to restrict movement, ban travelers, and basically force everyone to stay indoors, no one saw it coming even if the threat of COVID-19 was already looming in the horizon. No one saw how much the virus would disrupt lives and change the world as we know it. Businesses, in particular, didn’t expect to be challenged by a global health crisis. At the height of the pandemic, a lot of businesses closed...Read More

Safety is the No. 1 priority of everyone these days as the threat of COVID-19 remains. This goes without saying that employees returning to work at their physical offices have a few apprehensions as they fear returning to work will expose them to the virus and increase their risk for contracting the disease. These are valid concerns and ones that employers should address before asking their teams to return to work. Some businesses, however, have turned to external services to...Read More

At the onset of the pandemic, establishments, facilities, and institutions had to temporarily close their physical offices, which resulted in organizations shifting to online operations without warning. Employers and employees struggled as no one was prepared for the sudden shift to working from home. As business struggled to cope with the shift, consumers too felt the impact. All of a sudden, they had to rely on the internet for virtually everything they need to make the day-to-day in lockdown just...Read More

When businesses were forced to temporarily close shop and run operations through a virtual platform, employees suddenly found themselves working from home. What was supposed to be a short, temporarily hurdle has become the new normal and therein lies the problem: individuals, especially parents to young children, forced to simultaneously become employee and parent. In the blink of an eye, the boundaries that separated work from home responsibilities disappeared. Employers and business owners too had to juggle work and family...Read More