While I am grateful to have stayed employed throughout 2020, working from home constantly has been a blessing and a curse. The ability to tackle household chores in between working is great, but the endless distractions and boredom have proven challenging – not to mention the added stress of COVID-19 and politics that we as...Read More

Research has shown that when employees have friends at work they are better performers, more engaged, and happier with their jobs. However, thanks in large part to technology, how we relate to our coworkers is changing in two important ways.Read More

As the potential scope of the COVID-19 outbreak has become more clear in the United States and Canada, public and private organizations from all industries, sectors and geographies are encouraging their teams to work remotely to reduce the spread of the virus.Read More

As the potential scope of the COVID-19 outbreak has become more clear in the United States and Canada, public and private organizations from all industries, sectors and geographies are encouraging their teams to work remotely to reduce the spread of the virus.Read More

The threat to our health is enough to elevate stress alone - but throw in the challenges of a new working scenario, and many of us are struggling to find a sense of calm and productivity.Read More

Working at home is rapidly becoming more than a volunteer program. The current driver today is the anticipated, accelerated need for large populations of knowledge workers to ‘self-quarantine’ and not congregate in the same place at the same time to conduct work activities. Right now, it is fueled by the spread of the COVID-19 virus,...Read More

The note below was shared with our OFS family. We are concerned about everyone's mental and physical wellbeing during this time of change and wanted to share this message broader in the hope that it provides some comfort and simple ways to discover the positive among the uncertainty. We'll see this through together.Read More

Usually, an organization takes up to 12 months to plan and implement a remote work program; because of COVID-19, this expansion of remote work occurred literally overnight.Read More