Working from home doesn't mean you can't impress your boss. Be sure to send updates to your manager, exceed expectations and speak up with suggestions to help out your team during the outbreak, suggests Avery Blank.

Working from home can be lonely, but technology has the answer for that. Olivia Judson is a writer in Berlin who fights off loneliness by doing her work alongside others in a online video conference through Zoom.

Advertising agency leaders share their thoughts on retaining creativity while working from home, including Campbell Ewald's Jason Tisser who says working at home with two children means "honing my storytelling as well as sharpening my negotiating skills while I also balance out work responsibilities." Barkley's Berk Wasserman describes the agency's first remote creative session, saying, "We all got into the work like we always do, but we also got a look into each other's lives that we normally don't get to see," adding, "this way of working was a more intimate version of creating together."

If a workplace suffers from a lack of compelling job descriptions, a weak applicant pool and high withdrawal rates, it should overhaul its hiring process, writes Cate Huston, an engineering manager at Automattic. Resetting expectations, being clear and specific about needed skills and abilities, and standardizing and calibrating rubrics for evaluating candidates can save a broken hiring system, Huston writes.

The world's networks should largely remain healthy despite the additional burden that coronavirus-mandated remote work, school closings and social distancing place on bandwidth, a cable company and an internet advocacy group assert. A Charter Communications executive says its network should survive daytime surges since it is built to maintain service even for especially heavy nighttime peaks.

Reorganizing the apps on your home screen, hiding notifications and setting your phone to grayscale can help you cut down your screen time and improve productivity. "Technology is here with us to stay. What we need to do is to use our smartphones in an effective, efficient way for the kinds of purposes that we want to use it for," says Daria Kuss, a psychology professor at Nottingham Trent University.

Starbucks is expanding its mental health benefits for employees and their families with access to 20 therapy sessions per year. The program, which is through mental health provider Lyra Health, will be available to all employees, not just full-time workers.

A film crew working in a remote area near New Zealand played a key role in confirming the discovery of three species of previously unknown species of fish. "Rangitahua is expensive and difficult to reach for scientists, so this collaboration was a perfect opportunity to piggy-back on the NHNZ voyage and builds on our knowledge on the biodiversity of these remote islands," said Thomas Trnski, head of natural sciences at Auckland Museum.