{"id":29177,"date":"2020-04-09T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/?p=29177"},"modified":"2023-10-23T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:24:52","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-two-remote-workers-mary-and-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/a-day-in-the-life-of-two-remote-workers-mary-and-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of Two Remote Workers: Mary and Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have noticed your work from home routine makes your usual in-office activities more challenging, at least at first. We take a look at how Microsoft Teams can help you develop a sense of \u201cin-office\u201d out of the office.<\/h2>\n
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As remote work continues to evolve, many may find they struggle to navigate the \u201cnew normal\u201d of remote working \u2014 at least initially.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s managing the people or culture side<\/a>\u00a0or using new technologies<\/a> to complete one\u2019s day-to-day outside of an in-person office environment, the challenges seem big, but you can overcome these with remote working tools like Microsoft Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During two recent webinars, Veenus Maximiuk<\/a>, Phil Swettenham, and I presented \u201cDay in the Life of Mary.\u201d Mary is a remote worker who uses Microsoft Teams<\/a> to complete her tasks, collaborate with her teammates and stay engaged with her colleagues and friends.<\/p>\n\n

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As you review Mary\u2019s story below, notice how she incorporates Teams into her daily routine, and watch for ways she uses Teams to replace\u2014or even improve\u2014traditional, in-person office interactions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mary + Microsoft Teams: A Lifelong Partnership<\/h2>\n

Did you spot any transactions in Mary\u2019s day that made you think, \u201cOh, so that\u2019s how I could do that remotely?\u201d Microsoft Teams is the perfect partner because it helps Mary accomplish the same things she used to do in an office from wherever she is, even her favorite coffee shop\u2019s drive-thru.<\/p>\n

Below is a more detailed list of everyday things you might have done in a traditional office setting, and how you can accomplish them by making friends with Microsoft Teams yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/h2>\n

As you can see, Teams is about more than enabling teamwork and staying engaged and connected. The key is to accept that virtually anything you can do in your brick-and-mortar office building has a virtual\u2014and in some cases, better\u2014analog in the remote world. Team members can improve productivity, add to the bottom line and strengthen their relationships with each other.<\/strong> When implemented well, technologies such as Microsoft Teams can help employees grow personally while building trust across their team and keeping the trains on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discover how Microsoft Teams can improve productivity and build strong relationships within remote teams, helping employees grow personally and professionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":29178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18559,16926,16927],"coauthors":[15598],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-07-21 21:49:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29177"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}