Tips for making colleagues’ WFH easier/more tolerable?

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I’ll go first: when I have a casual call scheduled with someone, I look at their calendar and if they have a something right after, I make sure to verbally acknowledge that they need time between our calls and offer to end 5-10 minutes early so they can transition.

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To that end, I do notice some people will schedule meetings thst usually would be for an hour or 30 minutes and shorten it to 55 minutes or 25 minutes, respectively....just to give people 5 minutes of breathing room before their next mtg.

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Schedule informal recurrent calls with new joiners, such that they don’t feel lost in the online world

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