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55 Federal, State and Nonprofit Relief Efforts and Funds to Help You Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
Is your small business struggling? These resources can help you get through this difficult time. In 2018, over 30 million small businesses accounted for 99.9 percent of the total businesses in the United States. Over 59 million small business employees accounted for 48 percent of the total...
How to Use Time Blocking to Manage Your Day
Whether you work a nine-to-five job, telecommute, or stay-at-home with the kids, everyone needs an effective method for managing their day. After all, perfectionism, procrastination, and the myth of multitasking are all very real dangers that can keep even the most productive people stuck in one...
The Five Levels of Remote Work — and Why You’re Probably at Level 2
COVID-19 has forced companies the world over to enact — or create — remote working protocols. The likes of Box, Amazon, Airbnb, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all told their employees some variation of “work from home”. But so too are more traditional organisations across fields such as real...
Getting Started with Zoom — and Using It Securely: Some Advice
The coronavirus pandemic has forced a lot of firms to use videoconferencing to “meet” with co-workers and clients. One of the more popular videoconferencing platforms is Zoom. While we can’t cover all the options and settings for Zoom, here is some advice on the best way to use and secure Zoom for...
How the Crisis Will Change the Way We Manage Forever
The implications of the coronavirus pandemic are and will be profound for individuals, organizations, and society at large. One of the casualties few will shed a tear for will be the demise of what can only be described as old-school management practices. In his fabulous video from a few years...
Academic Research Proves 8 Skills Critical to Work-From-Home Success
As the “world’s largest work from home experiment” continues in full force this week, many business leaders are scrambling to put the correct tools in place to ensure effective virtual collaboration within their newly distributed teams. But according to two Canadian professors, software won’t make...
The Remote Workplace: Communicating in an Offsite World
To prevent more cases of COVID-19, many companies this week were told that their employees could no longer come into the office. Everyone who could work from home had to quickly prepare to do so. Are the millions of office workers who have suddenly become remote employees ready for the change?...
Here are the Best Sources of Emergency Funding Available Right Now for Small Businesses Hurt by the Coronavirus
The economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are hitting small businesses especially hard as customers practice social distancing, states enact forced closures, and events get canceled. More than 99% of all American businesses are small businesses, and they employ more than half of the...
Hackers Find New Target as Americans Work from Home During Outbreak
Experts are warning of a new wave of cyberattacks targeting Americans who are forced to work from home during the coronavirus outbreak. There is increasing evidence that hackers are using the concerns over the virus to prey on individuals and that working outside secure office environments opens...