How will you grow while stuck at home? | Coronavirus crisis provides opportunity for career change | End your day with a routine for a better transition
Learning and personal development require making growth a priority and setting routines you can stick to, and that remains true during the pandemic, writes Julie Winkle Giulioni. "We can just muddle through or we can use it to better ourselves, deepen our capacity, and position ourselves for greater contribution," she writes.
Workers unhappy in their careers might find a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic, as it provides a perfect opportunity for a career change, according to Joe Mullings. Career changers won't be met with skepticism by potential employers due to the large number of unemployed applicants in the post-coronavirus workforce.
Maintaining a work-life balance can be hard while working from home, but setting a wrap-up routine can help workers easily transition to personal time after clocking out. At least 30 minutes before the end of work, start wrapping up by checking emails, looking over task lists and deciding what time to work on them again, writes Elizabeth Grace Saunders.
As many workers have transitioned to working remotely, they can be networking from home as well. Some tips for your digital networking strategy include recurring check-ins, establishing a texting buddy during the pandemic and discovering if you prefer virtual happy hours to meetings over coffee, suggest marketing expert Megan Burke Roudebush.
Starbucks has created a $10 million fund, called the Starbucks Global Partner Emergency Relief Fund, to offer one-time grants to employees around the world who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The money can be used for housing and utility bills, as well as emergencies including costs related to the death of a family member.
Facebook has added Quiet Mode to its Your Time feature, which should help in this stay-at-home time. The feature allows you to pause notifications, push notices and other interruptions so you can take a mental break -- or even a nap.
One of the many questions about nature you've probably never pondered is whether city fish get more or less sleep than country fish. Well, researchers have concluded a fishy study and they determined city slicker fish aren't as rested as their schools of friends in less-lit areas.
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