There are a few practical strategies that businesses can implement during this time to keep their employees motivated and drive stronger focus to achieving business results.

It is important to communicate as much as possible on what the company’s plans are including what the current performance is, the mitigating interventions that the company has put in place to salvage the situation and what employees can do to help.

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A powerful way to motivate employees would be to work out a bounce back plan for the business.

There is a possibility that employees are worried about employers maintaining the slashed salaries even beyond possible business recovery and this would be an effective approach to managing any anxiety around this.

Businesses that are really serious about the well-being of their people can put in place a policy directive of a maximum number of hours per day that their employees should be on call to ensure work life balance and retention of high-quality output.