The work from home concept is being largely adopted nowadays due to the coronavirus pandemic. Due to this concept, many things have changed. The atmosphere at home has changed and also due to working from home you are unable to meet your colleagues every day. It becomes very difficult to understand and sometimes patch with colleagues due to this work from home concept. It is advisable don’t let this social distancing let you feel disengaged at work. Get imaginative with how you stay in touch and make it entertaining. Here we look at ways through which we can do this thing very easily.
CREATE NEW TEAM RITUALS.
Try to create new rituals and routines, just like you have daily habits with colleagues. On weekends you can have group video conferencing, like virtual coffee, and can discuss personal things like you used to do in the office. Likewise, you can do virtual lunch on video conferencing like you used to do in your company cafeteria.
TEAM ACTIVITIES.
There can be many small activities like reading the article and sharing thoughts, attending the webinar, starting a book club, and participating in a weekly meditation as a group.
Also, you can over-communicate with your colleagues to be in touch. Try to share photos and videos frequently with your group of colleagues. This is a better way to patch up and it will help you to bond together. You can share your favorite memes or interesting articles.
If your colleagues are not working virtually, you can have daily or weekly morning updates over video conferencing to help people keep on track and communicate important information to your colleagues. These all things allow you all to patch up and work in a friendly atmosphere though you work from home.
