Kia ora everyone,

While we’re all scrambling to get organised to work from home, we wanted to update you on some key things:

Working from home

• Many thanks for updating your working from home needs. Please ensure you have listed here any equipment you are taking home including the UC tag number (where applicable)
• Grab your headphones for Skype for Business or Zoom if you need them (put those as well on the above equipment list)
• Familiarise yourself with the working from home policy
• If you run out of “usual” work here is a list of alternative task ideas you can pick from. There will be plenty of literature to review if we get stuck for ideas …
• As you’re sorting out how you manage working from home, one suggestion is to have a ‘buddy’ you regularly check in with for mutual help, support and discussion about who is wearing the best pjs …

Housekeeping

• Ensure your Outlook Calendar is up-to-date. Block out your calendar when you are not available. See also: this helpful post on Skype for Business
• Suggestion: add your team members as a Favourite in your Skype for Business
• If you put an out of office on your email, please add the AskLIVE hours to your automated message (08:30-20:30 Monday to Friday; 10:30-20:30 Saturday and Sunday)
• You are welcome to apply for annual leave in the usual way (PeopleSoft). Apply for sick leave in the same way as needed
• Regularly check your team’s shared email inboxes
• Access to Camelot and Counterculture

AskLIVE

• We aim to sustain our usual AskLIVE working hours
• Log into AskLIVE when you can this will help maintain adequate numbers across the days and times
• It is possible we may receive more wider UC related queries via AskLIVE. We will provide some guidance in due course about where you can refer these

Access to campus during the next four weeks

• At this stage, we do not expect Library staff to be able to access campus during the period of alert level 4
• If there is an emergency on campus we will contact Security for further guidance
• 20 UC staff in total will be given “essential worker” status to maintain essential services