Since last Thursday, the Director of the Josep Carreras Institute, Manel Esteller, recommended a series of measures to encourage teleworking to anyone who could carry out this activity, as a measure to contain COVID-19. These measures have been taken to an extreme recently, and only people with express permission can access the Institute to carry out activities whose interruption could generate personal injury or damage to resources.

The result is that over 90% of researchers and staff are teleworking from home. The Institute has drawn up a decalogue to facilitate the welfare of workers and has drawn up a schedule of regular meetings between colleagues in the same support units for researchers, research groups, administration, management, and services.

Decalogue for Teleworking for the personnel of the Josep Carreras Institute:

1. Prepare a functional, safe, and comfortable workspace.

2. Determine a work schedule and follow a daily routine.

3. Set objectives and plan the workday's tasks well.

4. Keep in touch with your colleagues.

5. Ask for support from the people with whom you live.

6. Separate work from household tasks.

7. Pause and air out at times, and stop for lunch.

8. Change your clothes, and do not start the working day with the same clothes you slept in.

9. Avoid being sedentary; try to exercise or move around your house.

10. Establish a pleasant climate. As Victor Pauchet said, "The most productive work is that which comes from the hands of a happy person."

Along the same lines, the Institute is managing technological solutions to create virtual workspaces and ease teleconferences between more than two people with platforms such as Meet.