This week, as the COVID-19 threat escalated, a memo to managers to begin evaluating plans for some employees to telecommute.
I didn't want to wait for someone else to make a plan. Yesterday, I told my managers to start having staff work from home. Today, there were only a few of us in the office, wrapping things up.
We posted this sign on our floor. It seemed like the logical thing to do. But also caused a bit of a backlash as to why our group was taking this step ahead of everyone else.
I wasn't phased. I had been watching the progression of the health crisis for many weeks and the handwriting was on the wall. We have a lot of older workers on our team and some with family members who are sick. Much of the work we do really lends itself to remote working, so that was an advantage we clearly had.
Two days later, most of the rest of the organization followed suit. But I am proud we were the first.
