What You Need To Know About Virtual Camps | 3 Ways To Create A Great Remote Culture | How To Maintain Your Mental Health While Working From Home

Plus: How Verizon’s CIO is helping the telecom giant adapt to a contactless world

The past couple of months have proved especially challenging for working parents, who have been tasked with juggling the professional and personal with little to no reprieve—and that’s while the kids have been occupied with at-home learning. When school’s out for summer, will parents be able to catch a break? Sending the kids off to summer camp may not be an option, but virtual camps can keep them entertained.

Virtual camps aren’t a perfect substitute for day camps—especially depending on the age and temperament of your children—but if all you need is a few uninterrupted hours in the morning or afternoon to focus on work, they’ll do the trick. Some traditional camps are even taking their activities online, meaning your little ones can still enjoy the programs they know and love, all while practicing social distancing.

And here’s more on everything you need to know about working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

For more on working and leading from home, check out our guide, updated daily.

The Telecommuter's Toolkit

If working from home has found you with more meetings than ever before, you’re not alone. After all, when you’re not able to walk over to a colleague’s desk to casually pose a question, what choice do you have but to set up another videoconference? But be warned: Zoom fatigue is very real.

Whether you’ve been telecommuting for weeks or years, sooner or later you’re bound to experience the mental health challenges that come from working in isolation. Here, a psychologist shares her top tips for how to cope with being remote. For starters, break up your workday.

Over the past few weeks, it’s likely you’ve had to have more difficult conversations than usual. Hone your communication skills so that you can share the news you need to in a way that makes your employees feel supported and understood by heeding this advice.

The Break Room

Calling all bookworms: Bill Gates just released his annual summer reading list—and, for the first time ever, a list of the television shows he’s binging right now. Billionaires, they’re just like us.

Forbes Advisor: Negative interest rates have been widely debated and implemented in other countries during economic downturns. Here’s how they could affect you.