Onboarding Remotely (Bonus)

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🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Are you starting a new job during the coronavirus pandemic? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Siobhan O’Mahony, a professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business. In this bonus episode, they talk through what to do when you want to hit the ground running but your onboarding is not taking place in person as planned.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.6	Today we're bringing you a bonus episode on starting a new job remotely.
0:37.0	The coronavirus pandemic has forced
0:39.0	many organizations to tell people to work from home, including new employees just starting out.
0:44.3	And one of our listeners is in that strange position. On her first day of a new job, she can't
0:49.3	actually go into the office. She sent us an email asking how to deal with it. We wanted to help her and
0:55.1	others in the same situation out. So we're answering promptly. We're bringing back our expert
1:00.6	guest from episode 19 on remote workers. Shavon O'Manny is a professor at Questrum School of
1:06.3	Business at Boston University. Shavon, welcome back. Thanks for having me, Dan. Hi, Allison.
1:11.2	Hi.
1:11.8	So Allison and I are each recording ourselves from home.
1:15.0	Chavon, we've reached you at home too, right?
1:17.0	Yes, where my two nine-year-old twins are homeschooling, distant learning.
1:22.4	How's it going with the nine-year-olds?
1:24.1	Well, we are stressing our network to new levels and the kitchen at new levels.
1:29.9	Yeah, no, I hear you. I'm home. My husband's working full-time. I'm working, and I've been at
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