With the virus pandemic businesses are finding out that they are totally unprepared to have their employees work from home. Whether it's technology that needs to be upgraded, security put into place or training, they find themselves ill-prepared.
My husband works for a global corporation and he's surprised that the people who have "worked from home" on snow days are saying they can't work from home now. What were those people doing all these years????
I think now is a good time for new businesses to start up in helping businesses prepare for these emergencies.
A lot of people are not onboard with the work from home mantra because it's a way of inconvenience to them. They're selfish in my opinion. It'd all be over with quicker if people realised the true lengths we may have to go through to get through this.
It's going to be hard and it may even continue for six months down the line. No one knows. It's different even compared to war time which a lot of people have tried to liken it to because again, we've never gone through something this bad before.
I think it is a combination of not having the appropriate technology, software and internet speed to work with, and not being used to the potential of the constant interruptions that may happen with having children at home also (because of the school work at home thing).
When my mother was given the opportunity to work from home, she mentioned that if she had the opportunity, her ideal "work at home" situation, would really be renting office space with the internet requirements, so that the potential of distractions from home wouldn't interfere with working.
Also, the lack of devices & the appropriate environment to work from home during this pandemic. Though it is said as "work from home", it affects the overall working efficiency of every individual.
I think one really good thing about all of this is the discovery of services like Zoom for so many of these businesses across the globe. Still, there are plenty of issues to consider. Even in the year 2020, not everyone has access to an internet connection beyond DSL or dial up, especially when you get to these rural towns. One local company actually sent out mobile hotspots to all of their employees because of this issue.
I started this thread in March and I still hear about people from where my husband works not being able to do the things they should have learned how to before the shut downs. More of the older users (those who should have retired like 10 years ago) are afraid to attempt anything beyond what they're used to doing. If you want to remain employable you need to adapt and become flexible.
