If your employees need to transition to remote work due to a change in your operations because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it might be a new way of working for them and for your entire organization. DeskAlerts Internal Communications Solution has come up with a checklist to help you determine what to do and what you need to communicate with staff.
Some of the useful tips include:
Encouraging employees to use instant messenger tools for the sorts of conversations they may have had face-to-face with their colleagues when working in the same office so they don’t send too many emails.
Have a dedicated staff phone hotline, even if it just contains prerecorded messages, that employees can hear the latest information you need them to know at any time of the day or night.
Use corporate social media channels such as Facebook for Business to help employees stay connected.
Have your teams use team/project platforms like Slack, Asana, Teams or Basecamp to share ideas and files and keep their projects running virtually.
Videoconferencing software such as Skype or Zoom can help you to keep having regular team meetings where everyone can still speak to one another… but from their homes!
Have managers reach out and check in on their people. This is always important but especially during a time like this, they need to know if they are overwhelmed or have problems with their workload. If managers can’t see their employees like they usually would it can be hard to know there are issues to manage.
Here is the checklist provided by DeskAlerts:
Checklist_for_working_from_home_communications.pdf