Easter is coming up, and it does not matter whether you usually celebrate with an egg hunt, attending church, eating well or enjoying a bright Easter fire outside. We all know that this year’s celebrations will be drastically different to what we normally would have planned for the coming days.
A lot of us would like to take the chance and meet family and friends, visit somebody they love, have a good meal at friends’ cosy places or simply go out for lunch together. A lot of those “usual” rituals have had to be cancelled as we are asked to stay at home and self-quarantine. We are positive that you will find a way of celebrating with your loved ones regardless of the circumstances. Maybe it doesn’t really matter how, maybe what matters will simply be finding creative ways of connecting, like: Creating a video conference with your family, preparing your own Easter breakfast or meeting your best friend via video call – hiding the Easter eggs inside the house to surprise your partner or kids might also be nice these days.
We wish you relaxed and happy Easter Holidays, lots of inspiration for staying in contact with family and friends and, most importantly, health and happiness.
For some, working from home has not been that much of a change in pace, but for a lot of us it requires previously unknown levels of self-motivation and self-organisation. We at Fujifilm have been working in our #fujicomfortzone for a few weeks now and would like to start the week by lending a helping hand in surviving the home office. To that end, we have collected these 10 handy tips and tricks from our Fujifilm colleagues. We hope they will also be of help to you:
Structure your day like you would if you were in the office. For example: 1.: get up and out of bed, 2.: enjoy your morning beverage and freshen up, 3.: get dressed as you would for the offfice – no pyjamas while working, 4.: start work, 5.: relax. Sounds easy? Can be a tough one!
The human psyche has funny ways of tricking us, so find a space in your house that you can associate with getting work done. After finishing the work of the day, change to the areas that you associate with leisure time. This helps to structure your day and keep work and free time separated.
Planning ahead makes your life a lot easier and helps to understand what you can manage and what would be an overextension. While working on your „Master Plan“ for the day, keep asking yourself: What are the most important things that me and my team need to get started, work on, or finish? Why are they important? How can my different tasks be prioritised? What do I have to do first, second …?
Make sure to give yourself plenty of breaks. This will help you to maintain high levels of concentration and focus.
Try standing up or walkingaround every 30 to 40 minutes to stay more alert throughout the day. If you have the possibility, try to work standing up.
Having an overview of what everybody is working on during the week is essential to organise work efficiently, avoid unnecessary stress, and prevent tasks from falling through the cracks. Therefore, you, as a member of a team, should be very transparent with that team about what you are working on. As a team, find or improve ways of communicating information on your plans and projects, bottlenecks and milestones.
Keep in touch. Stay connected with colleagues by mail, phone or video call, especially if you need support to finish a task.
Be aware of your biorhythm and know when you are most productive during the day. If possible, organise your work around those times – after having coordinated with your team.
Mom is constantly messaging to ask if you are fine and if the washing is done? This will keep you from staying focused and getting things done on time. So, if you are easily distracted by social media, calls or messages, consider turning off your application notifications. Sometimes, simply keeping your private phone in another room helps a lot as well.
Always an important part of the day: Checking to see what’s on the canteen’s menu. Well, at home YOU are the canteen. While working from home you might have to spend more time on what and when you will eat, but you also have more control. Eating right will not only keep you healthy but improve concentration and keep you focused on your daily tasks. If you need inspiration, check out our latest recipe for French Toast.
We hope you feel healthy, motivated and happy working from home in your #fujicomfortzone. Let us know if we have forgotten (and we surely have) an important tip that you would like to add to our list.
Although the current situation requires us to maintain physical distance, we at Fujifilm Healthcare are figuratively (!) moving closer together right now. Turbulent times require extraordinary measures. The Fujifilm Healthcare team continues to work at full capacity, so you can continue to care for your patients with ease. Especially during these challenging times, we are proud to be at your side as a competent partner.
The Fujifilm family has reached week 3 of, where possible, working in the #homeoffice in the #fujicomfortzone.
Our colleagues sharing their #fujicomfortzone moments.
The corona pandemic has massively impacted people’s lifestyle, health and the global economy. But it also seems to help focus on the parts of our lives that are most valuable to all of us. Across Europe, our Fujifilm workforce has jointly communicated online under the hashtag #fujicomfortzone. Our colleagues posted and expressed positive thoughts, motivation and hope for one another.
These communal posts lead to the positive fact that all over the Fujifilm family, colleagues let us know what is most valuable and precious to them. We have met partners and children, found out about furry animal house mates that explore workspaces and got a glimpse into the way colleagues live, a glance into the save place we call home – that has become a #fujicomfortzone over the recent weeks.
Our colleagues also let us know what they consider most important when working for Fujifilm Europe while not being able to enter their office as usual. Being in contact with colleagues, via telephone or video calls – not only to get the important and valuable information that we all need to do a good job, but also to be in contact, to share excitement, fear, news and … tips and tricks that help to stay sane during quarantine.
Over these days and weeks, we might all have learned a lot about staying mentally sane while being pretty much locked into our homes during spring. We learned about keeping the daily routine – getting up and getting dressed, having a coffee, reading the newspapers and then starting the “day at work”, we have learned about indoor sports and self motivation – just to mention a few handy tips that our friends, family and the media were able to provide us.
Fujifilm Europe’s workforce is very diverse and multicultural, colleagues bring together different languages, sports, music and art and most of all – in times of grocery shops missing toilet paper, bread, pasta and tomato juice – they bring in different cuisines.
Well, it obviously makes a lot of sense to care about good and healthy food. Fujifilm Europe is making every effort to provide the best possible service for customers and partners during these times of crisis. Considering that “no engine runs without fuel” we should not forget to take care of ourselves to stay healthy, strong and active to work in our #fujicomfortzone. Therefore, we have prepared a beautiful but simple dish sent in by one of our colleagues that helps you – in times of chronic bread shortages, to use all of it, even the rest, the hard and old bits – as well as possible and at the same time welcome yummy beautiful fruit, colour and spring.
So, everybody – Fujifilm family or not: Feel invited to #neverstop eating healthy and fresh in your #fujicomfortzone!
Fujifilm Europe
P.S. We are curious about your favourite spring recipes in 2020. Upload them on the usual social platforms using #fujicomfortzone.
“Marco Costa, Medical Equipments Application Supervisor, servicing hospitals in Milan, Italy, tells his story of facing the current healthcare crisis head-on.”
— We are at your service. During the current healthcare crisis our technicians are working on the front lines alongside healthcare professionals to make sure patients can be diagnosed and treated. These are their stories. This series will be updated weekly. —
First there was the focus on an area other than our core. From mammograms, attention has drastically turned to mobile x-ray systems for examinations on bedridden patients: an important product category, but so far not predominant.
Within a few days, we had to put the mammography equipment into the background, to which we devote great energy and planning every day, to devote all our efforts to an area that has become very topical, namely chest exams. I never imagined that I would have to put the chest exam back in the first place … This is because chest exam is currently the only exam that patients with COVID 19 have to undergo in order to have an assessment of the progress of related diseases, such as pneumonia.
After the first moment of surprise, a great sense of concern crept into me. I started thinking about my team of application specialists, i.e. those who have the fundamental and critical task of carrying out all the testing activities of the equipment installed at customers. For example, instruction to radiology technicians and assessment of the quality of the radiographic image.
Never as at this time, has it become of primary importance to know the procedures for accessing hospital facilities, it is essential to know in which environment you will have to operate, which PPE to wear ….
Yes… the PPE …. not that I previously underestimated them indeed, there are well-tested internal procedures but, the awareness of accessing a high-risk environment has led me to reconsider the importance of personal protective equipment.“the PPE I will wear is saving my life”This is a slightly different thought. It is a thought that on one hand reassures; on the other, it puts some tension.
I do not think to extremes, I assure you that when you enter a hospital today and later in a radiology, compulsorily following a pre-established path to try to minimize potential contagion, the tension is felt.
We then run to prepare all the possible and imaginable PPE (with the poor colleague Luca who, for his part, does his utmost to meet all needs), we become experts in the certification of the masks, we prepare all the material and pack boxes on boxes to be sent to application specialists who live far away. And of course, the collection of the material is arranged for those who will be able to pass in person.
It is a feverish activity, which we now carry out with our eyes closed.I now spend a lot of my working time contacting clients to find out how they should behave once they arrive at the hospital, which PPE they recommend to wear, which safety procedures must be followed.Then … then finally the real work begins.
Once in the hospital, we begin to educate the staff, very few people at a time, in a protected environment.Everyone wears a mask and gloves and the atmosphere becomes surreal. It is at that moment that you realize that you are carrying out an activity useful to others, to those who work on the front lines. To those who are struggling without ever giving up.
In these critical moments, also happened to me to intervene in an installation since the whole team was fully engaged in the field.It was my first experience linked to this pandemic.
I wore an FFP3 mask for 3 hours and I assure you that at the end of the surgery I was a rag, certainly also thanks to the great tension accumulated, I was having difficulty breathing. Since then I have never stopped thinking about the sanitary workers who must wear it during these gruelling work shifts these days.I was the first to experience touching this new reality with my own hands, and often during the day I asked myself if I had done everything I could to protect my colleagues.
Then when you prepare to return home in the evening, the thought goes to loved ones, my wife, my daughter and then you would like to stay in your car, in the parking lot under the house to avoid any contagion but, then take courage and try to take all necessary precautions and go ahead, continuing to give your support.”
