Customer engagement is one of the most important objectives of any business. Those connections ensure customers stay loyal. But what does customer engagement look like in a post-COVID world? Here are some tips for customer engagement in a virtual environment.
Customer engagement is one of the most important objectives of any business. Those connections ensure customers stay loyal. But what does customer engagement look like in a post-COVID world? Here are some tips for customer engagement in a virtual environment.
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Effective time management is a significant challenge for most remote workers. But it doesn’t have to be. Discussed herein are realistic time management tips that’ll turn you into a telecommuting pro within no time.
Remote working is not the future but the new normal. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, 50% of the country’s population already worked online. Now with things taking on a new curve, this percentage is even higher. In a perfect world, this paradigm shift would be much-welcomed. But the truth is very few businesses were ready.
As the business world shifts due to the pandemic, there’s an evolution happening around how we work. Work from wherever is shaking up the fundamentals of how employers and employees view work. So, what does this mean for the future? Will work from wherever outlive the pandemic era?
Once the pandemic hit and the world went into lockdown, businesses had to quickly rethink the entire idea of work. It was a moment of triage and trying to find tools to empower a remote workforce. Companies began to urgently prepare to shift to a remote workforce, looking for sometimes short-term solutions that allowed employees to work anywhere. Now, businesses are adopting new work models and focusing on the ability to work from wherever better.
Long before the pandemic, remote work was gaining in adoption. From global billion-dollar companies to startups, the shift to telecommuting has long been a smart business choice. It saves money, widens your talent pool, and often yields greater productivity. However, virtual leadership feels new because it probably wasn’t a priority until remote work became more than an option. Now, it’s a necessity. That’s led me to think, what’s the framework for virtual leadership?
2021 is weeks away, and with it comes the hope of normalcy. As we’ve all learned, normal was a relative term, so now, we’re all saying the new normal. In the new year, there are many possibilities about what the workplace will look like, or if there will even be traditional workplaces anymore.
With so many people working from home offices in 2020 for the first time, businesses have to re-think worker safety. If employees don’t have what they need to work effectively, the company faces increased risks. A lot of businesses focus on protecting against cyber-threats when addressing WFH security but equally important is worker health and safety. If you haven’t already, now’s the time to conduct an ergonomic audit to minimize exposure to workers’ compensation risk and to enable your teams to thrive while working from anywhere.
With all workers moving to remote, Mr. Osburn said the transition was rather easy. “I didn’t have to do much as the IT manager. Everything we’ve built with infrastructure and the Intermedia platform was ready to go. Really, it was just another day at the office,” he commented.
How do you protect your employees and adhere to COVID-19 restrictions when you’re a manufacturer and the products you produce are deemed “essential”?
When you are a branded merchandise company helping clients to get their brands into their customers’ hands through logoed merchandise at business events, what happens when social distancing forces the entire business world to cancel these events with little warning? That’s the challenge that Shelley Stewart, CEO of Red Promotions, faced when the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in March 2020.
When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted most of the population to shelter in place to prevent risk of transmission, the healthcare industry was faced with significant dilemmas – namely how to maintain the continuity of quality patient care while minimizing the risk of physical contact with patients and between workers.
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