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Asked by Emily🌺 on 26 Apr 2022.
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Laurence Quirk answered on 26 Apr 2022:
Yes, there were lots of changes. Our team organises learning events so they all moved to take place online. As a team we all worked from home. I started in Sept 2020 and only met my boss and another couple of people who started at the same time. I didn’t meet the whole team until around April 2021. That’s quite hard when you start a new job and need to building relationships with people
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Sarah Chalmers-Page answered on 26 Apr 2022:
There were big changes. I think the most obvious one was working from home, and building in systems like Zoom and Teams so people could do that but still be part of the team. But there were more subtle changes too. I think that people have talked about being kind and looking after each other’s mental health for years, but in the pandemic people really started taking that more seriously. And I have worked flexibly from home for years, and I think people sometimes disaproved of that, it was rare – now it’s far more mainstream and people understand that you are really working. The other thing is around being able to work around family commitments. Before the pandemic, if one of my children was home sick, I had to take the whole day off, miss meetings – it just wasn’t seen as OK to attend a meeting with a sick child on your knees. Now people are much more comfortable that if you have to take time off because your child has chicken pox or something it’s OK, and it’s also OK to still phone into meetings.
Of course I am a manager, but my husband is a doctor and he has done more of his paperwork from home (although never anything that has patient information – that has to stay secure). His hours have increased and he has been quite stressed, but doctors have also made arrangements to help people who have to shield or isolate, and to make it easier for people to balance their home commitments with their very long clinical hours.
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