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Google's free tools and advice that can help you work and learn smarter from home during the coronavirus pandemic




The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many office workers and now students and teachers across the region suddenly having to leave their building and adapt to working from home.

Many, if not all, will have experienced challenges in making that work smoothly and enabling them to be as efficient as in their normal working or learning environment, which can lead to longer days playing catch-up.

Working with video calls, keeping on top of stress, brainstorming online and sharing and using lesson plans are just some of the things people are now trying to get their heads around.

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Shocked young woman looking at laptop screen at work desk. Casual business lady in office seeing something unbelievable on computer. Bad news concept, dismissal notice from boss, work-related mistake.. (32104714)

But Google's Digital Garage Team has responded by putting together a list of useful free resources to help improve the situation for different sectors, that we have re-produced with the relevant links below:

For workers

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Attractive mad businesswoman in white blouse sitting at her workplace in office, looking at laptop screen with angry expression. Too much workload, file error, all data failed, forgot to save document. (32104746)

For business owners

For teachers

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For students & learners

* We have been getting our reporting team to share their experiences of working from home with a 'coronavirus log'. Catch up with the first three entries below:

  1. William Mata: What I've learned on my first day
  2. Paul Derrick: How I'm looking after my mental health
  3. Russell Claydon: My covert world of working from home