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WORKING SAFELY DURING COVID-19
The Government has produced guidance to help employers, employees and the self-employed understand how to work safely during the coronavirus pandemic. They have produced 14 guides, covering a range of different types of work. Many businesses operate more than one type of workplace, such as an office, factory and fleet of vehicles. You may need to use more than one of these guides as you think through what you need to do to keep people safe. Further guidance will be published as more businesses are able to reopen. |
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Safer workplace case studies
Watch the safer workplace case studies to see how a range of workplace setting are returning to work safely. You can also visit the Coronavirus Business Support blog to read examples of how businesses like Rossiter Books and Barratt Homes have followed the government's working safely guidance.
WORKING FROM HOME (remote working)
Since the start of lockdown, many more people have had to start working from home. Many businesses are finding that homeworking is enabling them not only to continue to operate during Covid-19 restrictions but that productivity levels remain high.
As we start to emerge out of lockdown, and with social distancing measures putting pressure on workplace and public transport capacity, many businesses will want to take this opportunity to embed increased homeworking within their organisations.
It is important that businesses consider what they need to do enable more staff to work from home, more often - be it 1-2 days a week, one week in the office and one week at home rota, or home full time. It is important for businesses to ensure that people working from home a few days a week don't all choose the same days to work from home but that homeworking is spread out across the week to ensure capacity issues both at the workplace and on the transport network can be evened out.
The CBI has run a series of Coronavirus Webinars and on the 28th May they spoke to Matt Brittin, President, EMEA Business & Operations at Google about how they have adapted to remote working. This offers some useful insight and tips to make home working work for your business. Lessons from Google: Helping your workforce adapt to Covid-19
The www.gov.uk website also has helpful information on how to work from home safely.
Watch the safer workplace case studies to see how a range of workplace setting are returning to work safely. You can also visit the Coronavirus Business Support blog to read examples of how businesses like Rossiter Books and Barratt Homes have followed the government's working safely guidance.
WORKING FROM HOME (remote working)
Since the start of lockdown, many more people have had to start working from home. Many businesses are finding that homeworking is enabling them not only to continue to operate during Covid-19 restrictions but that productivity levels remain high.
As we start to emerge out of lockdown, and with social distancing measures putting pressure on workplace and public transport capacity, many businesses will want to take this opportunity to embed increased homeworking within their organisations.
It is important that businesses consider what they need to do enable more staff to work from home, more often - be it 1-2 days a week, one week in the office and one week at home rota, or home full time. It is important for businesses to ensure that people working from home a few days a week don't all choose the same days to work from home but that homeworking is spread out across the week to ensure capacity issues both at the workplace and on the transport network can be evened out.
The CBI has run a series of Coronavirus Webinars and on the 28th May they spoke to Matt Brittin, President, EMEA Business & Operations at Google about how they have adapted to remote working. This offers some useful insight and tips to make home working work for your business. Lessons from Google: Helping your workforce adapt to Covid-19
The www.gov.uk website also has helpful information on how to work from home safely.