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The Impact of COVID-19 On Team Training

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, global and local workforces have undergone several phases of transformation, a major change for many being the transition to remote work life. With this transition came challenges such as maintaining strong company culture, working with clients in a remote space, and the piece we will be focusing on in this post, conducting effective team training in a remote environment. Providing SEO training to your team can be a very large undertaking on its own, let alone in a post-pandemic remote workspace.

As you may know, UpBuild has been a 100% remote workforce since our founding in 2015 — one of the many perks of working in the SEO industry. Although this did not leave us immune to the economic impact of COVID-19, it did position us to come out ahead of many after-effects most businesses have had to navigate as they transition to remote work.

Even in industries such as digital marketing – a trade that can be virtually learned from anywhere –  prior to 2020, team training typically took place in person. However, with companies planning to downsize office space and 30% of people saying they’d quit their jobs if forced to go back to an office –  heyo, it me –  where does that leave team training? The flock to online learning systems may give us some indication.

In order to support a now broad workforce of remote team members, companies began rapidly adopting online learning systems and outsourcing training to businesses in the online learning market. On the other hand, with the economic effects of COVID-19, businesses have also sought new ways to provide necessary training to their new and existing team members while improving their bottom lines. UpBuild has recently experimented with one new solution that is just emerging from under the business radar: Google Classroom.