How Working from Home Is Transforming Learning

Change is a natural part of life. But the recent changes we’ve been facing on a global scale are much larger and more dramatic than anyone could have anticipated. Here at Learning Platform, our global team is adapting to this change by working to meet the needs of students, instructors, and businesses who are suddenly and unexpectedly now spending the majority of their time at home and working remotely.

How are people coping with this new reality, both in terms of balancing personal and professional obligations and more specifically in continuing to pursue their learning goals? As part of our ongoing research on workplace trends, Learning Platform surveyed 1,000 U.S. full-time workers about COVID-19. Here are some of our findings.

Adjusting to the new reality

Not too surprisingly, the coronavirus is weighing heavily on people’s minds.

• 74% of U.S. employees said concerns about the coronavirus are a work distraction affecting normal business activities.
• 78% believe that their employers are doing all they can do to protect employees from the coronavirus.

As workforces have gone remote, employees say their top distractions are:

• Personal calls and texts 
• Watching TV 
• Kids or other family members 

Dealing with meals, pets, outside noise, and other distractions are pretty much consistent between men and women, but there’s a significant gap when it comes to chores and kids. 33% of women vs. 26% of men cite kids as a top distraction while working remotely and 20% of women vs. 13% of men cite household chores as a top distraction.

The latest trending popular skills 

Our team also looked at the top tech and soft skills for 2020 and compared those findings to recent Learning Platform usage. As people around the world are spending the majority of their time at home and working remotely, we wanted to revisit the top skills and see how they’ve grown.

The top 3 soft skills

1. Growth mindset 

In the last 30 days, growth mindset courses have surged 231% in popularity. To put it simply, a growth mindset comes down to a love of learning and an openness to trying new things. In the past few weeks, our users have been tackling topics such as Growth Mindset for Leaders and Building Confidence Through a Growth Mindset.

One undercurrent of a growth mindset is the willingness and resilience to deal with change. That’s certainly pertinent today as people, businesses, and organizations adapt to a current environment where change is the only constant. Want to explore this topic in more detail? Learning Platform instructor Diane Flynn offers her tips on how to foster a growth mindset in this blog post.

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