We are living in a new world with the COVID-19 global pandemic. Companies are working hard every day to react and respond to it in order to keep their businesses moving forward. Organizations face questions on numerous fronts about customer relationships, supply chains, business continuity, technology needs and much more. But there’s an important aspect of the crisis that companies cannot ignore – the people side of COVID-19. How should companies manage the transition of their organizations and workforces to an environment where their managers and employees may be working remotely on a long-term basis? More importantly, what are the change management implications on corporate culture of transitioning the organization to a distributed workplace?

Kathie Topel is a Director with the Business Performance Improvement solution in Protiviti and an expert in change management. Jim DeLoach is a Managing Director and leader of Protiviti’s Global Thought Leadership Program. They share their insights and best practices on how companies can be resilient and overcome adverse circumstances by focusing on their people during unplanned crises like this.

Learn more by visiting www.protiviti.com/covid-19 and reading the Protiviti paper, The People Side of COVID-19: The Ultimate Test of Operational Resilience?

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