Lean Techniques in Remote Working

Abstract

The actual situation (COVID-19) had forced a lot of people and companies to acquire remote working as their new work style. The objectives purposed of this project are make working from home a comfortable way of work to people, reduce the different types of wastes, ensure quality and safety during working from home and help people to adapt faster to this new work environment by introducing lean techniques. In order to achieve objectives in this research was used a mixed method methodology to combine the best of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies with the purpose of get and analyze the data the best way possible. This research showed that using 5s lean technique is an effective way to eliminate the common wastes, and by using it makes the implementation and the manage of this type of working more comfortable and more/equal efficient than when working normally.