01732 759725 18 six days a month and as a working mum, it really works for me. This new way of working has definitely improved my work-life balance, for example, I’m now able to pick up my children from school two days a week, which was impossible before, as I had at least an hour-long commute. I wouldn’t want to work full-time at home, I love my days in the office and meeting my colleagues. And when I go in, I plan my days so they are efficient and structured. So for example, I set-up in-person meetings, get things done that I need to collaborate on with the wider team, or arrange to collect collateral or other things I need for events I’m doing. 4 Epson’s partner portal As a 100% channel-centric business, it’s really important that we provide our partners with the tools and assets they need to promote Epson’s offering to their customers. The partner portal is something I definitely could not do my job without. It houses Epson’s key marketing messaging, sales toolkits, marketing collateral and assets all in one place. It’s easy for me to update and upload whatever new assets we’ve created, and our partners have easy one-click access to everything they need. 5 LinkedIn I really don’t know how we managed before LinkedIn became a thing! I tend to log on several times a day, the LinkedIn community is a really valuable resource and complements so many of the traditional marketing communication channels and tools we use. From keeping in touch with people I already have relationships with, re-connecting with past colleagues to making new connections. I thrive on collaboration, like to mix things up and move forward and I find LinkedIn helps me to come up with new ideas to amplify Epson’s messaging. 1 Music I love music. I was brought up surrounded by it, I used to sing in a band and I play the piano. When I’m working, I have to have music on WORKPLACE I couldn’t do my job without… Michelle O’Neill, Channel Marketing Manager at Epson, picks the tools she uses every day and couldn’t do her job without Michelle O’Neill Photo: pixabay.com/Afancycrave1 in the background, whether it’s the radio or one of my favourite playlists. Obviously when I am in the office, I put my headphones in so as not to disturb my colleagues! But I really find that it helps me to focus more and gets me through the day. 2 Dedicated home office When we first moved to working from home during the pandemic, I didn’t have a dedicated space to work, so I set up on my dining room table. It wasn’t ideal, tying to manage my work commitments whilst being right in the centre of the home and family life. I moved house recently and top of my list was to create a dedicated home office where I could shut myself away and focus on the job in hand. It’s really made a difference to my work-life balance, I now have a structure to my day and can ‘leave’ the office at the end of the day, whereas before I found I stopped for a bit to make dinner then I’d go back to the dining room table and pick up work again. 3 Flexible working Epson has embraced flexible working – the pre-pandemic norm of commuting five days a week seems like a distant memory now. I now go into the office
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