More Northwoods residents and workers across the U.S. have been using remote technology to communicate and work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently, Vilas County Economic Development Corporation chair Jim Tuckwell was the focus of an online discussion about remote working. Tuckwell worked more than 41 years with IBM, much of it on a remote basis. He was living in Minnesota and had received an offer to move to New York, but accepted the position with the agreement he could work from the Twin Cities.
Tuckwell says this situation is different as often spouses are home working remotely and children are there too. He says a key is setting up dedicated blocks of time to concentrate on work along with making your home a workspace...
"To really set up a dedicated work environment...that may even be temporarily during the day at the kitchen table but recognize that that is a work space and it's again an environment that would hopefully help you really concentrate..."
Tuckwell says if you work from home without having the TV on or leaving the workspace, you can find yourself more productive than at the office...
"What I found was having a dedicated work environment, for me, in the Twin Cities it was converting a bedroom into an office. Here, it was designing a home with a dedicated office space allowed me to concentrate much, much, more..."
Tuckwell says one silver lining in the situation could be people working from home could find new career opportunities they hadn't thought of before.
Vilas County Economic Development Corporation has this event and others on their website at vilascountyedc.org
