The GUARDIAN

Find dark humor, cancel that Zoom call: five ways to fight quarantine fatigue

Christina Disler, a workplace wellness expert and the founder of Werklab, says now is the time for employers to reassess their work-from-home strategies.

“We have to start being really intentional in the things we do,” says Disler. “Now is the time to touch base and ask, does it actually make sense for us to have Zoom meetings every morning? What are we really getting out of this?”

Disler also thinks this year of remote work has laid bare the importance of emotionally intelligent, “trust-based” leadership. “All of a sudden, to be effectively leading a remote company, you need to be leading from a place of trust,” she says. That could mean providing workers with flex hours, shifting away from the idea that work only gets done if everyone at a company is at their computer from nine to five sharp. What’s become clear is that good company culture isn’t about “Beer Thursdays” or break room foosball – it’s about leaders understanding what kind of support workers need to lead balanced lives.