Returning to Work After LockDown: Lessons from Wuhan
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The Harvard Business Review covered research from Zhenyu Yuan, Assistant Professor of Managerial Studies. In summary, as Covid lockdowns are lifted and workplaces reopen, how can businesses promote employee engagement, productivity, and safety?
The authors surveyed more than 350 employees in Wuhan, China a few weeks after the city’s lockdown was lifted to explore how both employees and managers prepared for the return to work. They found that the most successful teams were those where employees mentally prepared themselves to come back to their jobs and where managers proactively and consistently promoted health and safety in the workplace.
While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, the authors suggest that these findings may be helpful to inform how businesses around the world prepare themselves for reopening.