Meet three women who took up new jobs during lockdown

From connecting with colleagues online to setting office hours, there's a lot you can do to make working from home work for you, say experts and three people who started new jobs during lockdown. Ciara McDonnell reports

Ireland has embraced working from home since the arrival of Covid-19, with 47% of us setting up office on home ground. Denise Curtin, Iris Kavanagh and Aileen Hayes started new jobs during this time

ON March 23, four days before the entire country went into its first Covid-19 lockdown, German national Aileen Hayes flew into Dublin to start her new job, working for engineering software maker MathWorks in Galway. 

She hired a car, drove west and went to stay in the company’s serviced apartments. A few days later, she met a company employee briefly in the hotel lobby, where she was given the technology she needed to set herself up. From that point on set herself the goal of connecting with her 14-strong team - without ever meeting them face to face.