Guidance for ING groups and individuals during work-from-home period, 2020-03-22

Advice to individuals

1. Read the excellent posted documentation on recommendations for working from home. 
2. Prepare a timetable for yourself
3. Prepare a work space at home
• Aim to identify a private space somewhere at home to minimise distractions during work hours
4. Agree with those in the household (family etc) about timetable and work-space at home.
5. Write-down a work-plan for yourself
• Assume it's for one month, and be prepared to extend it to a total 2-4 months.
• Broadly week-by-week
• Extracted from your PWPR wherever possible
• Understand and note down the changes to the PWP imposed by your working from home.
• Agree your home PWP with your line manager. Ask for advice.
6. You are recommended to note down daily start and end work-times, for your own control
7. Timesheet
• mark every work-from-home day as a 'day at sea-level'.
• When traveling to ORM on duty, mark the day as 'day at ORM'
• If you are sick, inform your line manager and HR by email, and mark the day as 'day off sick'.
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Advice to group heads

1. Adjust group objectives to the circumstances of work from home.
• Note what has to be postponed
• Note opportunities. Examples may be:
• Catch up with documentation
• Revising/improving planning of future activities
• Training: online courses
• ASR
2. Discuss these objectives with group members.
• Come to an agreement.
• Reflect the agreement in the PWPR document of each individual in your group. 
  
  
3. Agree with each group member on a frequency for contact via phone or zoom.
• Choices may vary from one to three times per week.
• Some individuals require far less contact than others.
• Items to cover at the regular meetings
• Progress
• Ways to cope with difficulties of working from home
• Adjusting plans for following period