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.

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

• Six tips for better video calls

• Tools for better remote working

• Staying focused with mindfulness

For business owners

• Keeping customers updated with Google My Business

• Achieving a balanced and flexible workforce

• Running brainstorming sessions remotely

For teachers

• Engaging students through distance learning

• Using digital tools in your lesson plans

• Sharing information with interactive presentations

For students & learners

• Learning new online skills

• Getting organised with Google Drive

• Bite-sized lessons in business or marketing

* 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