Entering the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftereffect seems one of the biggest business challenges of our time. To keep operations going while minimizing the risk to employees, we, RUSSELL TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PVT LTD, have adapted new ways of working that have left our offices premises empty.

The health and safety of the workforce is management’s top priority as it considers how to bring operations back to some semblance of normal. This is, of course, a moral, ethical and legal concern for us and from a business perspective, safeguarding employees’ well-being is paramount because no plan to resume normal operations can succeed without them.

Providing employees with the chance to make their challenges and concerns known may help management teams identify potential problems with their return-to-the-workplace plans. By enabling real, two-way communication, we are trying to turn the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity to strengthen corporate culture, increase employee engagement and boost productivity and loyalty over the long run.