Home Working Page

A collection of guides and resources to help you while working remotely. You can contribute by emailing us.

General guides

• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC): Homeworking
  Guide to preparing your organisation and staff
• Coronavirus tech handbook: Remote resources
  A crowdsourced set of resources on remote working
• BBC: Five ways to work well from home
  BBC news article on remote working
• Gitlab: Gitlab Guide to All-Remote
  GitLab’s remote working guide
• Horizon: Health and safety checklist
  Health and safety considerations when homeworking
• GDS: Tips for teams working from home
• Open Data Institute: Resources
  Resources to support working, collaborating and training remotely
• Trello: Remote working
  Trello’s remote working guide
• Equal experts: Remote working
  EE’s Remote working playbook

Ways of working

• Scrum: agile and product remote working
  Guide to running agile remotely
• Sharepoint: New staff onboarding checklist
  Onboarding checklist for new staff remotely
• Design and Climate: Running remote workshops
  How to run workshops remotely
• Sharepoint: Guidance for user researchers
  Current advice for Home Office User Researchers in response to the outbreak of Covid19
• GDS: How to work remotely as a team - from page 12
  From the Cross-gov Discuss a Design Challenge Call, April 2020
• Mentally Friendly’s quickly evolving guide to making remote teamwork productive
  A collaborative document

Tools

• Sharepoint: Setting up VPN on non-POISE machines
• Sharepoint: How to Skype between POISE and non-POISE
• Sharepoint: Office 365 help
  Digital O365 wiki
• Horizon: Skype for Business quick start guide
• Skype for business web scheduler
  Tool to schedule Digital to Digital Skype for Business meetings
• Suddenly remote: Definitive guide to facilitating remote workshops
  Including insights, tools and case studies

Mental health

• NHS: 5 steps to mental wellbeing
• Alice Goldfuss: Work in the time of corona
  Mental health guidance for remote working
• Headspace
  Headspace Covid-19 resources
• Care for your coronavirus anxiety
• Instagram: The Fab Story
  Well-being checklists and graphics
• Inc: Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 Percent
• Second homeworking
  Includes meditation, podcasts and playlists

Fun

• Edinburgh Zoo: Live animal cams
• Google Arts and Culture
  Virtual tours of museums
• Virtual tours and learning apps
• Exploring the Smithsonian Museum from your living room

Please note that the Home Office does not endorse the organisations and resources above and links are provided only for informational purposes.