Working Remotely for the Good of All

By: Devi Thomas, Work-from-Home Pro & Jon Fee, Work-from-Home Novice

Recently our work lives as we know it came to a grinding pause when our corporate policy called for the safety of our workforce as the #1 priority and we began reinventing office life.

In the U.S. alone, 4.7 million or 3.4% of the population work remotely, according to FlexJobs. That number is expected to increase in the wake of novel coronavirus, COVID-19. At Salesforce, 16% of our employees already make up our Ohana-At-Home (remote workforce).

So two of us at Salesforce, (Devi, who works from home 90% of the time, and Jon, who rarely does so) engaged in some virtual “water cooler” talk asking ourselves, “what makes remote working work anyway?”

Here’s what we learned:

Pro Tip #1: Connect often and in real-time

Working from Home is Both Art and Science

It is both