This webinar provided information and advice for establishing an effective remote work environment. It discussed challenges such as recruiting and managing remote employees, connecting distributed workers, and ensuring productivity. It emphasized the importance of proper equipment, secure connectivity, collaboration tools, and self-care. Automating tasks and using productivity apps can help remote employees get work done. Employers should provide support to equip workers for success in a digital home office.

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2. The digitally enabled
home office
Supporting the effective remote workforce
Fraser Henderson, Digital Technology Advisor
Date: 23rd October 2020
Time: 10.00 – 11.30am

3. • Total session length 1.5hrs
• Time for questions & discussion at the end
• Use the chat but don’t expect an immediate response
- I will review chat during session breaks
• Keep your microphone muted please to avoid unwanted noise during
presentation slides
• If there is a problem, I will try to reconvene within 10 minutes – else fail!
Housekeeping

4. Your host
Fraser Henderson
• Over 12 years working remotely as an independent tech
consultant and as employee for tech firms
• Based in North Lincolnshire but serving clients globally
• Expertise in developing digital products & services, particularly
for public bodies
• Trainer and social media manager on the side!
• Doesn’t like butter on sandwiches or gravy

5. How far will the shift go?

6. What are the challenges of “traditional” homeworking?
People:
•How do we recruit, onboard and manage great talent remotely?
•How do we teach people the right skills for their ever changing roles?
•How do we equip employees to securely work from anywhere?
Place:
•How do we return to the workplace safely and securely, and manage ongoing risk?
•How do we set up the office environment so that digital and physical come together, making it seamless for all?
•How do we better connect workers on the frontline with those in back office or head office locations?
Process:
•How do we use technology to make processes more efficient, open and collaborative?
•How can manual or physical processes be replicated in a digital form?

7. What are the challenges?

8. What does a home office look like?

9. The couchOutside worker Shared spaces
In the bedroom
In the kitchen

10. Space & storage
No boundaries & interruptions
Communications
Technology hiccups
Problems

11. Poor working environments
Poor equipment
Poor connectivity
Poor comfort levels
= Poor
Productivity

12. Poor working environments
Poor equipment
Poor connectivity
Poor comfort levels
Digital solutions
to improve..

13. Wellbeing

14. Interlude

15. Working environment
Lighting
Temperature
Noise
Safety & security

16. Working environment
Light
Temperature
Noise
Safety & security

17. Working environment
Light
Temperature
Noise
Safety & security
Bequiet.com

18. Working environment
Light
Temperature
Noise
Safety & security

19. Working environment
Light
Temperature
Noise
Safety & security
2FA

20. Interlude

21. Equipment essentials
Computing
Communicating
Printing

22. Equipment essentials
Computing
Communicating
Printing
Ultra-low blue light
Flicker free
Low glare

23. Equipment essentials
Computing
Communicating
Printing

24. Collaboration software
Computing
Communicating
Printing

25. Equipment essentials
Computing
Communicating
Printing
Electronic document signing ?

26. Connectivity
Internet
Dual band (2GHz & 5GHz)
QoS
Parental Controls
MIMO
Gigabit ethernet

27. Improving signal
Internet
Wifi analyzer by
olgor.com
Firmware & power
throttling
Location &
interference
Antennas

28. Interlude

29. Wellbeing

30. Physical, psychological & social wellbeing
Community
Health assessments
Human development
Digital support networks to tackle loneliness –
remote social interaction

31. Community
Health assessments
Human development
Online workstation assessments (physio/DSE) –
www.commutemenot.com
Keybreak..£6!
Physical, psychological & social wellbeing
“sitting is the new
smoking”

32. Community
Health assessments
Human development
Personalised approach
• Sleep tracker
• Mood tracker
• Activity trackers
• Anxiety (headspace)
Employee wellbeing data?
Physical, psychological & social wellbeing

33. Community
Health assessments
Human development
Physical, psychological & social wellbeing
“eSports”
“eLearning”

34. Interlude

35. Automate everything!
Productivity

36. Productivity
Show and tell…getting things done
Open email (stripe CEO)

37. Productivity
Augment with
Real-time workspaces

38. Productivity
Remote desktop /
remote support

39. Productivity
Cloud storage

40. Group discussion

41. Are you properly equipped and how much support should
employers be providing?
How can we support non-natives?
Should there be a homeworking “standard”?
How do you feel about working from home?
Do you feel trusted?

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