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Viruses aren’t the only things that multiply during pandemic emergencies. Since the world has gone into COVID lockdown, hackers have gone into overdrive, seeking to capitalize on the exponential growth of anxious, housebound targets.

According to a list compiled by security researcher DustyFresh, 3,600 separate domains containing the word “coronavirus” or related keywords were created between March 14-18 alone. Most of these are surely aimed at luring unsuspecting web users, with the aim of implanting malware or extracting personal details.

All of this means that surfing the web for information about COVID-19 or buying essentials, has become a precarious activity. So how can you stay safe online during this challenging time? Let’s dive deeper and make some constructive suggestions.

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#workfromhome If you're new to working remotely, these tips from a home-office pro can help you stay productive and maintain balance.

#coronavirus The global spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is keeping people at home. Major conferences, including Mobile World Congress and Google I/O, have been canceled to decrease the risk of infection. Some employers are encouraging or requiring people to work from home for an indeterminate amount of time. If you're new to the work-from-home lifestyle, whether due to coronavirus or because you've managed to find a remote-based job, you'll need to change some of your habits and routines to make working from home a success.

• I've worked 100 percent remotely for more than five years, and I have some friends and colleagues who've done it, too. We all face unique challenges, not only because we have different personalities, but also due to our various lifestyles and the type of work we do. Still, many of the core issues we face as remote employees are the same.

Everyone who works remotely has to figure out when to work, where to work, and how to create boundaries between work and personal life. What about office equipment, career development, training opportunities, and building relationships with colleagues? Working remotely, especially when working from home most of the time, means figuring out these issues and others. Here are tips for leading a better and more productive remote-working life, based on my experience and what I've learned from others.

#motivation 1. Maintain Regular Hours Set a schedule, and stick to it...most of the time. Having clear guidelines for when to work and when to call it a day helps many remote workers maintain a work-life balance. That said, one of the benefits of remote work is flexibility, and sometimes you need to extend your day or start early to accommodate someone else's time zone. When you do, be sure to wrap up earlier than usual or sleep in a bit the next morning to make up for it. Automatic time-tracking apps, such as RescueTime, let you check in on whether you're sticking to your schedule. They can also help you figure out what times of day you're most productive versus when you slack off. You can use that information to your advantage by reserving your hours of high focus for your most important tasks.

2. Create a Morning Routine Deciding you'll sit down at your desk and start work at a certain time is one thing. Creating a routine that guides you into the chair is another. What is your morning routine that indicates you're about to start work? It might be making a cup of coffee. It might be returning home after a jog. It might be getting dressed (wearing pajama pants to work is a perk for some, but a bad strategy for others). A routine can be more powerful than a clock at helping you get started each day.

• I say "morning," but not everyone who works from home follows a nine-to-five schedule. Yours might be a "getting started" routine at another time of day.

3. Set Ground Rules With the People in Your Space Set ground rules with other people in your home or who share your space for when you work. If you have children who come home from school while you're still working, they need clear rules about what they can and cannot do during that time. Additionally, just because you're home and can let service people into the house or take care of pets doesn't mean other family members should assume you will always do it. If that's how you choose to divide up the domestic labor, that's fine, but if you simply take it all on by default because you're home, you may feel taken advantage of, and your productivity may suffer.

4. Schedule Breaks Know your company's policy on break times and take them. If you're self-employed, give yourself adequate time during the day to walk away from the computer screen and phone. A lunch hour and two 15-minute breaks seem to be the standard for full-time US employees.

5. Take Breaks in Their Entirety Don't short-change yourself during breaks, especially your lunch hour. You can use an app, such as TimeOut for Mac and Smart Break for Windows, to lock yourself out of your computer for 60 minutes. Or you can just launch a simple clock or timer on the screen when you take a break. If you return to your desk after only 40 minutes, walk away for another 20.

6. Leave Home You don't have to eat out every day, but try to leave your home or workspace regularly. The same advice applies to people who work in traditional office settings, too. Leave the building at least once a day. Your body needs to move. Plus, the fresh air and natural light will do you good.

• You don't have to go to crowded public spaces to get away from your solo workspace. Take a walk. Weed the garden. You get the picture.

7. Don't Hesitate to Ask for What You Need If you're employed by a company or organization that supports your work-from-home setup, request the equipment you need as soon as you start working from home, or within a day or two when you realize you need something new. It's extremely important to set precedents early that you will ask for what you need to get your job done comfortably, including the right monitor, keyboard, mouse, chair, printer, software, and so forth. Organizations that are accustomed to remote employees often have a budget for home office equipment. Ask what it is and how often it's renewed. It also doesn't hurt to ask whether there's a loan agreement or who will pay for return shipping or disposal of outdated equipment.

If you're working from home unexpectedly due to coronavirus, ask for what you need within reason. You could be working from home for weeks on end and you should be comfortable, but ordering a new office chair and desk might be asking too much. Consider a mouse and keyboard, plus a back-supporting cushion instead.

8. Keep a Dedicated Office Space In an ideal world, remote employees would have not only a dedicated office but also two computers, one for work and one for personal use. It's more secure for the employer, and it lets you do all your NSFW activities in private. But not everyone has a separate office in their home, and keeping two machines isn't always realistic. Instead, dedicate a desk and some peripherals only for work use. For example, when your laptop is hooked up to the monitor and external keyboard, it's work time. When it's on your lap, that's personal time. You may want to go as far as partitioning your hard drive and creating a separate user account for work.

9. Maintain a Separate Phone Number Set up a phone number that you only use for calls with colleagues and clients. It doesn't have to be a landline, second mobile phone, or even a SIM card. It can be a free VoIP service, such as Google Voice or a Skype number. Similar to some of the other tips, having a separate phone number helps you manage your work-life balance.

10. Use a VPN Use a VPN whenever you're connected to a network that you don't control. That includes Wi-Fi at co-working spaces, cafes, libraries, and airports. Some organizations have their own VPNs that off-site employees need to access certain servers or websites that store information meant only for internal use. In those cases, you'll also need to use a VPN at home. In any case, it's a good idea to get into the habit of leaving your VPN connected as often as possible because it's always safer to have it on than not.

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The business world has evolved in recent years as more companies have opted for an increasingly distributed and mobile workforce through the widespread adoption of collaboration and conferencing technologies. However, the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has accelerated this decision-making process for many companies that still rely on traditional office-based work structures.

Countless companies large and small have made a sudden pivot to mandatory work-from-home policies as a way to promote employee safety. Yet in their sincere efforts to protect workers, some firms are introducing new business risks such as potential breaches of cybersecurity and data privacy, along with new vulnerabilities for regulatory compliance.

Knowledge workers are familiar with popular technology platforms such as Zoom, Cisco Webex Teams, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. The benefits of these platforms include an ability to reduce the number of in-person meetings while increasing individual access to information.

The coronavirus scare is likely to drive growing mass-market adoption of these technologies, resulting in an even more rigorous due diligence process to win over the more conservative firms. A few collaboration and conferencing technology providers will likely stand above the rest in providing sufficient data privacy and security controls to satisfy broader market adoption. Who knows? This virus contagion may help unleash a whole new era of distributed teaming and collaboration.

The first step forward is to provide the necessary tools for employees to remain connected and productive. As a result, more firms are finding conferencing technologies to be an acceptable alternative to the risks of sanitizing physical office spaces or allowing airline flights during the crisis.

Addressing the demands of a work-from-home workforce Most knowledge workers have participated in Webex meetings before, but supporting a conferencing technology as the primary means of collaboration across a large organization entails a different level of foresight and planning on the part of management.

Undergoing a rapid transformation to a suddenly remote workforce requires adjustments in management processes, measurement systems, operational plans and cost analyses. Some of the basic questions to be addressed include: Should companies consider software that is “free”? How should they adjust policies about what is acceptable and what are prohibited uses of those tools? What cybersecurity risks could be introduced, such as the possible introduction of ransomware or spear-phishing? And for regulated firms, how confident are they in their ability to capture, store, and produce business conversations if required by the SEC, FINRA, or other regulatory bodies? There are also valid concerns about meeting the new CCPA and GDPR data privacy laws, and the government controls needed to satisfy them.

For managers trying to address all these questions in real-time, it’s best to follow the practices of leaders who have been there before – namely, large global companies that have widely embraced collaboration and conferencing solutions. From this group of early adopters, here are five best practices to help guide the evaluation:

1. Start with the benefit/risk analysis: Every organization should evaluate the benefits and risks of each new tool before choosing to allow them for use within the business. If key stakeholders conclude that the benefits exceed the risks – and that those risks can be controlled and mitigated through the use of technologies – then they tend to allow them to be used for business.

2. Beware the freeware: Many collaboration and conferencing solutions have multi-tiered offerings, some of which are as simple as a free user download away from proliferation within an organization. IT leaders, along with security and privacy stakeholders, should be leading due diligence efforts now to explore which offering is sufficient to meet the firm’s data protection objectives, in addition to the comparative evaluation of features and costs across vendors. Premium-tiered offerings may provide capabilities that are not essential, but they may be the only tier that satisfies the organization’s risk threshold. Some vendors are even offering discounted or free access to premium tiers for use during this crisis.

3. Data capture and storage: Every collaboration and conferencing provider is unique in terms of the support it provides to natively capture and store communications occurring on those networks. For firms faced with regulatory compliance obligations or frequent eDiscovery demands, relying upon a vendor’s ability to provide timely responses to requests for historical content may not be a risk worth taking. The availability of third-party solutions to capture and store content to meet regulatory and litigation demands should be a key component of any risk analysis.

4. Updating communications policies: Common feedback from those abruptly dropped into a new collaboration tool is that it can appear to be a place to socialize, and often a distraction from key tasks. One important step for firms in the midst of deploying such tools is to ensure that communications and employee conduct policies are up-to-date and not centered solely on email or other standard tools. Conferencing and broader unified communications platforms offer a variety of capabilities, some of which may not be used without taking specific steps – for example, recording a conference with an external party without first having received their permission. Knowing the features of each tool, and how those features would be necessary for individuals to perform their jobs, should be considered in order to make policies relevant to those who may not have had previous experience working remotely, or managing a distributed team.

5. Training, training, and retraining: Remote work can be a major adjustment for individuals accustomed to an office environment, and it may not be ideal for tightly knit workgroups with high interdependencies. Those investing in collaborative and conferencing technologies for the first time should work closely with leaders in those groups to design training programs that reflect the nature, timing, and business impact of key deliverables. The goal should be to minimize disruptions to the business and to account for critical steps to meet key deliverable dates. Ensuring that users of collaboration or conferencing systems know how to find information produced within those tools is vital, yet this point is often overlooked. Step in to ensure that the technology can deliver the promised productivity benefits – even if deployed under less than ideal circumstances.

Until recently, firms in heavily regulated industries such as financial services and insurance have tended to disable or prohibit access to tools that were perceived to be too risky or expensive to manage. That calculation has changed overnight amid the current worldwide health crisis. Now those same companies risk being left behind by their competition by paying the costs of an ineffective home-based workforce while sacrificing the productivity gains which modern collaboration technologies can provide. March 19, 2020 By Robert Cruz ViewPoints

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Many businesses are now relying on teleconferencing to get the job done. But is it actually an effective strategy for people who are or have to work from home.

1. Check your connection Make sure your internet connection is plugged in and working. Check that all wires are tightly fastened and that your router isn’t in a precarious spot where wires can easily become unplugged.

You’ll also want to make sure you’ve prepared your router for secure networking. If you’re working at home, you’re less likely to have the network protections your workplace does. Click to see the router settings you need to change.

2. Make sure your camera and microphone are working This sounds like a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised how many people have never configured their cameras and mics. After all, many manufacturers don’t even enable the hardware right out of the box.

On Windows, click the Start menu >> Settings >> Privacy >> Camera. Then toggle “Allow apps to access your camera” to the on position.

Repeat the same process for your mic by clicking on Microphone from the left-hand menu and toggling “Allow apps to access your microphone” to the on position.

On a Mac, the camera and microphone are enabled by default. To make sure they’re working, use the FaceTime and Settings apps.

For the camera, open the Facetime app and make sure your face is visible. The green light should be on, indicating the camera is active.

For the microphone, open Settings and search “Sound Input” in the search bar on the upper right. Click the Sound Input and begin speaking out loud. If your mic is working, you’ll see the bars light up under Input Level.

If you don’t see this, try turning Input Volume up higher until you notice the bars light up. This means your microphone is picking up sound.

3. Download the mobile app for your video conferencing tool as a backup Just like with our writer, a software glitch can sabotage meeting participation. That’s why downloading a mobile app back up as he did is a great way to keep the ball rolling.

Most of the biggest productivity tools like G Suite, Microsoft Office 365 and Zoom all offer mobile versions on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

Keep in mind that some, like G Suite, are spread across multiple apps. You’ll want to make sure you’re aware of the ins and outs of your workplace’s tools before downloading. Tap or click to see how you can get free premium versions of these productivity apps.

Also make sure that when you install these programs, you’re logging in with your secure work username and password, not setting up a new account.

4. Take a breather when you’re finished talking This is a big one! Audio lag, or latency, is a common issue for video conferencing. And with more people working from home than ever, it’s likely to affect all of us at some point. Tap or click to see why.

To avoid talking over one another, try this easy trick: Pause longer than usual when you’re finished speaking. This acts as an invitation for others on the conference call to speak — especially those struggling with lag.

Your team can also take turns speaking rather than chiming in all at once. It might be easy to jump in and out of a conversation when speaking face-to-face, but teleconferencing is a different story. It’s best only to speak if need-be and be courteous by waiting if others are already talking.

5. Dress for success – seriously! This one’s a bit of a lifehack for all the new remote workers out there.

One of the most important parts of successfully working from home is separating your work life from your home life. The lines can blur when you sleep in the same space that you work and it can make you feel like you never have a chance to go home.

To keep yourself productive (and sane), try to get up and dress for work as you would normally. Then, at the end of the day, you have a chance to get in comfortable clothes and unwind for the night.

It may seem like an unnecessary step, but the psychological impact is immediately obvious. Dressing for work puts you in a working mindset. Changing to leisure clothes when you’re done working for the day separates the feeling of your work life from your home life.

Also, designating an exclusive spot in your home for work is a good way to keep your mind away from the distractions of home life. Decorate it with things you enjoy or need, and soon you’ll have your very own home office setup.

Working from home is a major adjustment for many people. But in the end, the technology and a few life hacks make it possible to maintain your livelihood during times of uncertainty. Plus, you can’t beat that ultra-short commute from your bed to your desk! 💥

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