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How to Network While Working from Home

Figuring out how to network while working from home can feel impossible at times, especially if you're used to in-person networking or at least meeting in a common office space. How do you maintain a professional image without tech support or worse, household chaos happening in the background?   

The good news is, people are far less concerned with home interruptions and having an unpolished workspace is accepted in most industries. These days, networking from your home office has never been easier and as the world continues shifting to remote work, it's only going to become more common.

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Work from Home Trends One Year After COVID Began

Just as hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs launched businesses in the wake of the Great Recession, the same is happening in during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some might believe that it is insane to start a business during the pandemic, but the reality is that applications for new U.S. businesses are rising at the fastest rate since 2007. University of Maryland economist, John Haltiwanger, indicates that the “pandemic is actually introducing a surge in employer business startups that takes us back to the days before the decline in the Great Recession.”

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How to Improve Teleworking for the Long Haul

Now that vaccines are available being administered to healthcare workers and vulnerable populations and hopeful projections to have upwards of 100 million vaccinated by the summer, businesses are beginning to institute plans for returning to normal. But what does that normal look like? Most agree that few organizations will return to pre-pandemic workplace policies where workers spend hours each day commuting to and from a fixed office space and working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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What to Include in Your 2021 Work-from-Home Policy

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a move across knowledge-work organizations towards hybrid workforce models. There obviously remained a number of holdouts—and even examples of regression. But COVID-19 completely changed this paradigm. Changes that would have taken years to institute were implemented in a manner of days or weeks. Business leaders and managers who believed workers would shirk their duties, work fewer hours, and become unproductive were mistaken.

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Making Extended Work from Home Successful in 2021 and Beyond

Businesses have discovered their employees want to take on more responsibilities and welcome the work-life balance that working from home offers. Indeed, 80% of workers said they do not want to return to a permanent workspace in a physical office five days a week and 40 hours a week. Over half, once it is safe to work from an office workspace, say they will continue to work from home more than they did pre-COVID-19. 

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