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Managers need a crash-course in work-from-home skills

Companies and employee teams are scrambling to adapt to the work-from-home environment. What skills do they need?

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Water cooler talk isn’t just for the office; managers should use check-in time to ask about remote workers’ personal life, families and hobbies to keep up morale. (Photo: Shutterstock)

It’s laudable that companies are now letting more employees work from home to lessen the threat from COVID-19 – but for the next pandemic, they should upskill employees ahead of time to work more collaboratively.

Corporate trainer VitalSmarts surveyed more than 1,000 adults, roughly half executives and managers, and the other half employees, on what their organizations are doing to mitigate the outbreak. A third of the respondents say their organization has a plan in place they are confident about and 43 percent have a basic plan—even if it is “hastily assembled.”

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.

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