Guidance for ING groups and individuals during work-from-home period, 2020-03-22
Advice to individuals
- Read the excellent posted documentation on recommendations for working from home.
- Prepare a timetable for yourself
- Prepare a work space at home
- Aim to identify a private space somewhere at home to minimise distractions during work hours
- Agree with those in the household (family etc) about timetable and work-space at home.
- 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.
- You are recommended to note down daily start and end work-times, for your own control
- 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
- 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
- Discuss these objectives with group members.
- Come to an agreement.
- Reflect the agreement in the PWPR document of each individual in your group.
- 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