👋A practical wiki to help you navigate this challenging period

Tips for remote working

Guides to help you transition smoothly

• How to embrace remote work - a comprehensive guide by Trello
• A guide to manage your newly remote workers - from Harvard Business Review
• 16 home office set up guides - to help you create a calming and motivating work environment
• How to set up your first home office - actionable tips to help you use what you have to create a workable office space
• 180 tips for remote working - searchable crowd-sourced wisdom
• The Year Without Pants – Free guide to remote working
• Take Control of Working From Home Temporarily – Another free guide to temporary remote working

Guidance for founders

Help for anyone navigating uncertainty

• Tips for managing a remote workforce during Corona - and beyond - an interview with Github's Head of Remote
• A founders guide to recession planning - a guide by Techcrunch
• Facebook announces $100 million program for small businesses impacted by coronavirus - news worth checking out
• Free LinkedIn Learning Sessions - to help founders navigate this unprecendented time
• Small business survival training from Honeybook - watch the webinar for free (great for creators and creative small businesses)

Paywall free news

The following publications have removed their paywalls

• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Guardian
• AP News
• The Athletic

Productivity hacks

Tips to stay focused

• 15 ways to increase productivity at work - okay, so this is for a traditional office setup, but the same rules apply
• Snackable rules to increase work productivity - do you really need that meeting?
• Expert tips for staying connected and engaged with your colleagues - a comprehensive article by Forbes
• The art of working remotely to ensure productivity - a brand new guide created to help people struggling with the corona lockdown transition

Free work-related tools & offers

The best offers we've found (so far)

• Free Xfinity WiFi network throughout America - Comcast opens Xfinity nationally and offers unlimited data for free to keep American's online.
• Google offers free access to advanced Hangout features - available to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally
• Free plan at Convertkit extended to 500 subscribers - until April 1
• Adobe offers Creative Cloud free to Students - Adobe is making temporary at-home access to Creative Cloud available until May 31, 2020 for schools and colleges who currently have only lab access for students, at no additional cost.
• Slack offer free upgrades - available to teams helping to solve the coronavirus crisis
• Free 90-day trial for SMEs to use Box - to support remote teams with secure cloud sharing
• Free 6 month trial of Microsoft Teams - giving better access to scheduling, meeting features, recording, and storage
• Free access to Cisco Webex - for secure remote working
• Free language lessons for kids from Busuu - keep kids entertained while you work with free live language lessons for children anywhere in the world
• Free plans with Hilo - a platform to share the highs and lows of your work day with team leaders (for employe engagement and feedback)

Twitter Accounts to Follow

For informed, panic-free updates

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Health & anxiety support

Info to stay well and panic-free

• Unmind Open Slack Channel - to promote workplace mental health amid the outbreak and beyond
• COVID-19 Anxiety Management program from Talkspace - use TALKSPACE150 for $150 off any program
• Workplace wellbeing as the coronavirus develops - another resource from Unmind to help you manage the impact of coronavirus on the mental wellbeing of your workforce.
• Coronavirus and your wellbeing - a comprehensive guide by Mind
• Coronavirus: how to protect your mental health - curated advice from experts in the BBC

Free online activities to beat the lockdown blues

To keep your mind stimulated and engaged

• Free workouts from CarrotFIT - the usual $4.99 app cost has been waived
• All Down Dog apps are now free - Down Dog is making all of its apps — Yoga, Yoga for Beginners, HIIT, Barre, and 7 Minute Workout — free.
• Patreon’s “Weird-stream-a-thon” event on March 18
• 19 Minute Yoga – Free live streamed yoga classes on YouTube
• GOLD’s AMP – 600 audio and video workouts free until May 31
• Alto’s Odyssey and Alto’s Adventure - beautiful games, free for the next week
• Cincinnati zoo and botanical garden are doing daily safari tours online - perfect if you're into animals or have kids
• Netflix party - watch Netflix in sync with friends with this Google Chrome extension