A Seamless Transition to Working Remotely
Like most businesses in New Zealand, shifting to remote business operations was not without its stresses and challenges. However, we have all been quietly impressed with how seamless the change has been for our team at Rural Accountants.
As soon as we were told that we were going into lockdown, the team worked together to make sure everyone was set up and supported through the relatively quick transition to working from home.
Everyone became comfortable with using Zoom meetings fairly quickly, and the addition of Tuesday night drinks added some fun to the working week too.
Managing director, Shannon Harnett, was especially impressed with the uptake of their remote office systems, “It has forced people who love paper to adapt to online platforms which would not have happened if we were still in the office.”
“Personally, working from home has been great,” continues Shannon. “I’m spending more time with my family and my pets. I’m connecting with friends more often. I’m able to have time for myself to exercise and do some much needed cleaning/tidying. And I’m even getting to projects that I thought I’d never get to before!”
Aside from our wonderfully supportive team, we have some excellent online systems in place which have helped make this transition so smooth and successful, including:
- Zoom - conference calling
- Xero – accounting
- Figured – farm accounting and forecasting
- OneDrive – file management
- Trello - project management.
- Spotlight – non-farming reporting and forecasting