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What Businesses Are Doing to Survive the Lockdown Period

It’s no secret that the world as we know it has had to adjust their ways during the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Businesses are under an enormous amount of stress, with no way of knowing if they are going to survive economic collapse which will follow. There is also huge pressure on the service industry to deliver essential services at this time as they support hospitals and grocery stores that still need to run optimally.

Many countries around the globe have chosen to go on lockdown, but essential service industries, as mentioned above, remain in operation. During the lockdown period, employees have been working from home and maybe experiencing anxiety fuelled by a lack of supervision and direction, keeping productive, staying connected and juggling family and work responsibilities.


Home Offices

We want to encourage those who own trades and service businesses to make use of this time and research ways to run your business from home, limiting human interaction and passing on documents to one another. This is a crucial time to plan and improve business processes and consider taking on a digital system that will help your business go paperless.

A home office can be quite simple to set up, all you will need is a laptop or desktop computer and an internet connection.

We are fortunate to be living in a digital age where we have the option to communicate via our devices. We need to use the opportunity to work digitally and find ways to keep business productive and connected. Of course, right now, the world is unsure of when and if the pandemic will pass or if we will find ourselves in this situation again in coming years, and so it would be wise to look at new ways to conduct business moving forward.


Stay connected with your team

While everyone is working from home, businesses should consider doing online training with their teams to upskill their employees, keeping each other stimulated and motivated during this time. Another idea is to incorporate Cloud Collaborations software, which allows your team to work together online, whether it’s via a mobile app or PC.

Using cloud software will allow anybody working in the field, operating as an essential service, to be able to complete his work in the field, and remove any paperwork or double capturing. Therefore, reducing infection risk between the employees in the field and the admin employees.


Health and Safety of your Business

This is possibly not the last time that a pandemic can occur across the world, and so by addressing the way you conduct business and executing the correct procedures, you can keep your employees healthy and safe. Human contact should be avoided as much as possible during a pandemic like Covid-19, and so we need to be mindful of one another by reducing risks and practising safe business ethics.

Let us use our human ingenuity during this lockdown period, to advance businesses using digital technology and software.


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