5 years ago we started using Zoom for The Campbell Academy’s year-long Business Course and so we were pretty skilled at using it before March of this year.
We also use Slack within all our courses at The Academy and it’s a brilliant discussion platform and we use it widely through the practice too.
We use Asana as a project management tool and have done for about 10 years and we have a cloud based Clinical system which we implemented a year ago in November.
This means that I did quite a lot of working from home already, as did many of my team but the benefits of working from home have been magnified over the last 3 or 4 months and we should not give that all away in the chase back to what seems to be the ‘safety of consumerism’.
The other day I went to the Practice at 5am because the one thing I don’t yet have nailed down at home is the ability to dial in and view my CBCT scans. I could sort that out quite easily but I like to be in the Practice to do that (I’m a little bit odd).
So I jumped into the practice for 5am (a beautiful time to be there) and left at 7.15 am before anyone got there. I was able to come home and do circuit training in my garage over Facetime with Carl Dunstan (social distancing!) and then took my dog for a walk with my son who’s home schooling before we both had breakfast together.
I did some more admin on the clinical system on the cloud and then I had a phone call with the General Dental Council to do a witness statement for a case for someone who’s been referred, then I finished that call and I went and had a chat to my son again.
I was able to do some more Zoom calls for the management of the practice and various development things and then have lunch with Callum, walk the dog again, work a bit more and then finish at 4 and ride my bike.
It’s an admin day for running the business and for catching up with all my Clinical admin so in theory I’m not ‘getting paid’.
The ability to work from home to do that, to spend time with my son and my dog is a gift that I should not give away in the mad chase for what is apparent financial security.
Blog Post Number - 2434
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