Running the business from home has been like stepping back in time.
Back in the same room that we’d left 18 years ago when we moved our business into Worthing town centre.
Running the business from home can be quite lonely and I’m sure many people experienced that during the pandemic. However at the same time it was invigorating, actually being there day to day, 8-10 hours on the business during the day and if I wanted a break I could and I had extra time with the kids.
Callum was working from home, Megan was stationed at home because she was furloughed.
It was great actually great getting back to that level of contact on a 24hr basis, although they probably wouldn’t agree that it was.
Working from home I’ve seen the frustrations of what we’ve done before and how we’d actually surmounted those in working in an office, and I think we’ve got the best of both worlds working from home this time.
I’ve got the experience of doing it before and I’ve got the backup of the office which gives us a huge level of flexibility and has positive benefits for our company culture moving forward.
I believe what it has done has actually shaped the way that we work as Julian Church going forwards.
What that means is the staff have got the flexibility to actually make their own choices in how they want to work.
We set one day a week where we’re all in together and then the staff can actually make their choices going forward. We’ve set them up to be able to work at home and supported the home working
environment with the use of the technology and everything else that goes with that.
We’re also reinvested and replaced what we might have taken away from the office to enable that homeworking and to actually be put back into the office.
We’ve got brand new computers & new monitors, we have new ways of working and utilising the idea of Zoom, that we’ve never really considered before.
These adjustments have changed our pace of work that we’ve actually got with a lot of our clients where we’re mixing up face to face meetings, which people still want, with remote Zoom meetings, which means we can actually get a lot more done in a day and can also reduce our carbon footprint too.
How have you adjusted through the pandemic and what steps have you taken to be kinder to the world we live in?
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