Leadership | How top CEOs are tackling working from home

Working remotely is something many employees have had to get accustomed to very quickly, following the outbreak of coronavirus and the Prime Minister’s instruction to restrict all non-essential travel’.

It’s no different for today’s business leaders either who are all now working at home as part of efforts to stop the spread of the virus, which to date has claimed the lives of 335 people in the UK, with 6,650 known cases.

In fact, last week saw Cisco Chief Executive, Chuck Robbins, signed on to a companywide video conference from his home in Silicon Valley, which also featured several mental health professionals who spent an hour responding to questions from Cisco staff members who were working from home, reported the NY Times.

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Elsewhere, Stewart Butterfield, Chief Executive of Slack, had to set up his office in his laundry room – the only room in his San Francisco home that had any decent internet signal for his video conference. In a telephone interview, he said: “I did the all-hands from the laundry room.”