{"id":16655,"date":"2020-12-30T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/?p=16655"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T09:52:55","slug":"farewell-2020-you-taught-us-many-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/farewell-2020-you-taught-us-many-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, 2020, you taught us many lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you ask 10 different people to define the year that’s coming to an end tomorrow, you’ll get 10 different answers. Same if you ask 1000. Because 2020 was tough, bumpy, and full of unpredictability in all possible areas. And we can all agree that it has forever changed the way we work and interact, both in doing business and in our private lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Farewell<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Experience teaches the best lessons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the past year, many lessons have been taught, most of them the hard way<\/a>. Because nobody was fully prepared for the avalanche that came our way in March. Here are three of the most important ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always be prepared<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the past nine months, remote working had a big impact on the economy, redefining workflows and human interaction. With social distancing and lockdown measures in place, implementing work from home and thus relying on virtual teams was the only way for companies to keep their business going. And the same thing happened everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who were implementing remote work for the first time en-masse, adjusting to this new way of working hasn?t been easy<\/a> at all. Infrastructures had to be re-thought, team communication and collaboration systems revamped, new cyber security measures implemented, and company processes re-written, sometimes from scratch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.<\/em><\/p>Alexander Graham Bell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It has been challenging, yet many companies have made it. Adaptability and agility are always rewarded in business, and 2020 makes no exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remote is good, but so is face-to-face<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According to a poll from PwC<\/a>, the forecast is that 55 percent of the employees will continue to work remotely even after the pandemic is over. Whenever that will happen…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, the past 9 months proved without a shadow of a doubt that working from home has its downsides as well. The fine line between work and life has become almost invisible. Mental health<\/a> has never been under so much pressure like this year! According to a recent survey<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n