The rise of Covid-19 has added immense pressure on business leaders to accommodate for team-wide remote working. This sudden shift has led to increased concerns around productivity and subsequent impacts on the way we live and work. Given organisations with low employee engagement scores experience 18% lower productivity and 16% lower profitability, exploring ways to maintain high engagement is crucial in these unprecedented times. (Source: Gallup) Squiz has assembled a panel of industry leaders such as Heidi Davidson, Head of P&C, Rotor Studios (Ex-CBA, Ex-Newscorp), Juhi King, HR Technology Expert, and Richard Wells, Digital Comms Manager, Dept of NSW Customer Service to share insights and best practices on keeping remote employees engaged and connected. In this expert panel, industry leaders will share: - How to keep employees engaged, connected and collaborating while working remotely. - Impacts on businesses amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and potential opportunities for the future. - How to reduce drops in productivity by up to 25% through effectively equipping employees to work remotely.

1. How to effectively equip your
employees to work remotely.
Navigating Covid-19:

2. Moderator
Jim Liu, Product Manager, Squiz.
Recordings & slides
Will be emailed to you within the next few days.
Questions?
Submit your questions in the Q/A tab and we’ll
attempt to answer them at the end of the
presentation.
Welcome

3. ● Topics:
○ Keeping employees engaged, connected and
collaborating while working remotely.
○ The impacts and potential opportunities of COVID-19 on
businesses.
○ Increasing productivity while working remotely.
● Q&A
● Resources
Agenda

6. Question
How challenging has it been to keep employees
engaged and collaborating while working remotely?

7. 1
Reimagining your
working day
Creating your work
environment 2
Video meetings
How do we stop them
becoming a meeting for
meeting’s sake? Does
engagement, collaboration
and productivity increase if
we do it right…
3
Communication too
much or too little?
What do we mean by
being connected and
what is the new norm?
4
Social interaction
What happens with the
gossip stops?
Keeping employees connected, engaged & collaborating remotely

9. Question
In which areas has COVID-19 presented
opportunities for digital transformation?

10. Flexibility
- Empowered
- Increased
engagement
- Reduced
carbon
footprint
- Increased
work-life
integration
Health &
Wellbeing
- Sleep
- Meditate
- Exercise
- Stay active
Connectedness
- Authentic
- Compassionate
- Caring
- Kindness
- Gratitude
Performance &
Productivity
- Define
expectations.
- Set clear goals,
‘good work’
- Built trust, ‘job
quality’
- Celebrate
Challenges & opportunities for
businesses amidst Covid-19

12. Question
What key factors have boosted your productivity
while working remotely?

13. 1
Policy
● Pragmatic flexible
working policy – “If
not, why not”.
● Safe working from
home.
2
Cultural
● Activity based working
3
Systems
● Cloud based
connectivity.
● On-prem systems
are increasingly
rare.
4
Physical
● Laptops, electricity,
internet connection.
Increasing productivity while working remotely

14. Safely, remotely.
Isolation is for safety
Reducing physical contacts:
travel, social and office.
Domestic safety
Sensitive issue:
extraordinary trust in
managers and the
organisation is essential.
Equipment
Delivery service for chairs,
monitors, keyboards,
headsets.
Daily check-ins
Is everyone OK?

15. Technical
● Audio – the joy of children and pets.
● From face-to-face to screen-to-screen (check the background).
● Instant messaging – we keep in touch.
● File sharing – I have what I need.
Emotional
● Sharing stories to replace the coffee culture.
● Check of healthy habits: exercise, recipes.
Day to day - being human in isolation.

16. Productivity – office or home. It’s all the same.
A final note
Trust your staff - no one wants to do a ‘bad’ job. Empower them and they will work around
technology barriers and continue to do great work.
Culture Systems Equipment Access to
resources

17. A digital experience organisation empowering
customers globally with technology & solutions.
Squiz Workplace
A modern intranet platform to engage, empower
and retain your employees, anytime-anywhere.
Our clients
Who is Squiz
Get in touch
squiz.net/workplace

18. Please submit your questions in the Q&A tab.

19. ● Simple strategies to keep employees
engaged while working remotely.
● Lead your business through the coronavirus
crisis.
● LinkedIn learning remote working course
(free).
Resources

20. You’ll receive an email with the on-demand
recording and a feedback survey.
Thank you!