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How To Decrease Risk of Presenteeism When Ending Remote Working

Absenteeism has always been considered a big problem in business workplaces, and most entrepreneurs try to deal with this to ensure that their organization remains productive. When the pandemic-led crisis forced many organizations to embrace work from home or remote work protocols, another crisis cropped up to thwart productivity. This new problem is called presenteeism.

Presenteeism means showing presence while not remaining productive enough as desired for the job role. The problem has particularly become rampant in some employees working remotely or from home. When hiring remote developers for a project, you see all the team members present on the web. Still, the output is not satisfactory, making the company doubt the work ethics of respective team members. 

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Abruptly WFH: 11 Things Changed and 8 Things Stayed The Same

Work-life balance is taking on a new meaning for many. The dev team at LinearB is no exception now that we’re abruptly working from home.

My team works out of our Tel-Aviv office. There are 10 of us here. Recently, we decided to prepare for our team to operate remotely for an extended period. To do this, we decided to run a remote “test day.” What we didn’t know at the time is that the remote prep day ended up becoming the first day of the new “normal” way for our team to work.

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We Just Had Our First Virtual Reality Status Meeting. Here’s How It Went!

Just about everyone who can be working from home now. And while we're lucky to work in an industry that already works from home regularly and easily, there are still some aspects of being in an office that is difficult to replace. One of them is the stand-up meeting.

Every Monday we have a quick stand-up status meeting with our partner, Heroku. (If you aren't familiar with Heroku, they are a PaaS company that helps you to deploy, manage, and scale apps.) I'm on the opposite side of the country as Jennifer, my counterpart at Heroku, and we typically use Zoom or Google Hangouts for our meeting.

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How to Work From Home When Your Kids Are Home, Too

Well folks, here we are. Word came down over the weekend that all schools here in the Great Bold North (otherwise known as Minnesota) would close for a few weeks. Maybe longer. Our district has been prepping a remote learning plan, and while that’s being finalized, the kids basically get some bonus snow days. But my husband and I? No snow days for us. We’ll need to be working from home as normal – or as close to normal as we can manage.

Fortunately for us, working from home is our normal, as we’re both full-time remote employees. So we’ve had some practice dealing with the kiddos being at the house with us on days school is closed for parent-teacher conferences, curriculum development, and, y’know, actual snow. If, like us, you’re suddenly a stay-at-home parent and stay-at-home employee, here are a few ways to make this experience less stressful.