Working with the distraction from children, unsuitable working space, lack of privacy and the choice to do what you want will most likely lead to less productivity. Joyce Nyakundi, another HR practitioner at Bliss Healthcare Limited says they have most employees still working from the office since the company is an essential service provider, but employees working in Legal, Finance, Administration, Procurement, and Human Resource departments are working from home. According to Barbara Larson, a professor of management at North-eastern University in Boston who studies remote working, the key to working from home is clear communication with your boss – and knowing exactly what’s expected of you. But that’s all out the window with working from home, and communication breakdown is even more likely to happen if your workplace isn’t used to remote working. “This strategy is doomed to fail because managers don’t know everything that’s going on in the lives of remote employees.

Source: Standard Digital May 06, 2020 10:52 UTC