Week #10: Because of the Corona virus pandemic, I survived the tenth week of working from home. It was a short week for most Germans, Thursday was a public holiday, Friday I was off. Nevertheless, the stress level remained high. We start to get back to normal on Monday.
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We will work differently together in our local, regional, and global teams (which are virtual most of the time anyway), with our internal and external clients. Business travel will stay reduced dramatically even when it will be possible and safe again. Our everyday work culture has changed, because we are no longer bumping into colleagues by chance on the corridor, the tea kitchen, or the canteen. At the moment, we spend a lot of time in communicating on every channel, sometimes it feels like over-communication. And I think it is not as good as bumping into each other.
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Week #9: Because of the Corona virus pandemic, I survived the ninth week of working from home. We did our first online lecture for EBS Law School students on Monday. With breakout-workshops, video, polls, and chatting. It felt strange to do that while working from home, but it went pretty smooth, interactive, and in the end successful.
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Week #8: Because of the Corona virus pandemic, I survived the eighth week of working from home. That week felt a little more „business as usual“ for the first time. The number of online meetings and their duration decreased, and today’s public holiday in the UK also helped me get some real work done.
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Week #7: I survived the seventh week of working from home because of the Corona virus pandemic. I always complain here how bad I am, how exhausting it is, and what can go wrong. This is high-level whining.
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Week #6: I survived the sixth week of working from home because of the Corona virus pandemic. The work volume and intensity remain high. It seems to me that we communicate much more than if we were not working from home. To the list of communication tools this week we add the good old GoToMeeting, BlueJeans (InterCall) and StarLeaf (never heard of before). If my kids were smaller they would think I was a phone/video operator.
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Week #5: I survived the fifth week of working from home because of the corona-virus pandemic. Working? Well, first were the Easter holidays, then I had the rest of the week off at home. As planned we did a culinary tour of Italy, with Prosecco, Vitello Tonato, Pizza, Carpaccio, Spaghetti, Seafood Salad, Gnocchi, Lugana, grilled Scampi, Gorgonzola, Espresso, Limoncello and many other delicacies.
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Week #4: I survived the fourth week of working from home due to the corona-virus pandemic. But it was never so close. Queuing Wednesday evening in front of the supermarket, waiting with 1.5 m distance to the others willing to buy. I didn’t move, but he drove hard into me with his shopping trolley. Germans will never learn how to queue properly.
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Week #3: I survived the second and third week of working from home due to the corona-virus pandemic. Even better, my children survived as well. I always thought, that we have enough computers, enough bandwidth and enough rooms, desks and chairs for my wife, the three children and myself. Since they started to send work packages for home-schooling over their online service (which luckily enough existed since ages), chat, send done work back and so on I realised that we could be better equiped. After Netflix (since ages) and Apple TV+ (since February for 12 free months) we added Disney+ (since Tuesday for six free months) which caused bandwidth issues immediately in the afternoon.
Working from home (1)
Week #1: I survived the first week of working from home due to the corona-virus pandemic. I am used to working in global virtual teams. Now it is much more intense and exhausting than I had thought.