When the Covid pandemic swept through the country last year, companies rapidly transitioned employees to working from home (WFH). However, this shift led to growing challenges of WFH burnout and Zoom fatigue.

Unfortunately, organizations treat these issues as day-to-day challenges, instead of recognizing their strategic nature and addressing them strategically. At heart, these problems stem from organizations transposing their “office culture” norms of interaction to WFH models. That just doesn’t work well because virtual communication, collaboration, and relationships function very differently than in-person ones.

To survive and thrive in the remaining months of the pandemic and the post-Covid recovery, organizations need to make a strategic shift to best practices of working from home.

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