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If you continued working during the pandemic, how would you rate your company's ability to adapt on the fly during that time frame?

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Mar 12 '24, 10:18

My company in a secure office scenario had those of us who went home as high-risk back online within 10 days -- and everyone else was split up for a 6am to 2:30 or 3:30 - midnight shift in that same time frame.

For a stodgy never work from home company given our security ... I'd rank it as an A-.

Responses:

Solid B. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 12, 13:32
A. If the next pandemic came tomorrow, we'd be ready to have virtually all of headquarters WFH. -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 12:27
I was in the provincial government and it was actually a time of some rare nimbleness in the most earliest of days. For example.... - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 12:24
B, probably. - znufrii Mar 12, 11:33
B+....they implemented deep office cleaning early in March and then sent everyone home over the next three weeks... - Walt_Disney Mar 12, 11:25
Our company somehow survived and thrived during what should have been an extinction-level event for them. I was extremely impressed. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:14
B -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 12, 11:02
A, since it was all up to me! -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 11:01
A. but we are really small so it was easy to transition -- nm - decline Mar 12, 10:51
Since I implemented it, A+ :) - oblique Mar 12, 10:51
Compared to other companies, maybe a D+. Considering it's government, A-. It was a bit of C.F. at the beginning. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 10:47
A -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 12, 10:40
ramping up was surprisingly easy but getting people back in the office f/t has yet to happen three years post-vax -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 10:32
Our dept: A, overall company B -- nm - JD Mar 12, 10:32 1
- Company and department were both As -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 12, 10:45
We were pretty quickly up on Zoom, but the meetings were rough because nobody had common sense about taking turns in video chat. - Max Mar 12, 10:27
Given that I was key not only to my institution's transition to WFH, but also another (rival) institution, I give myself an A+. - Mop🧹 Mar 12, 10:23
Considering that our company was pretty in-office focused (still is) they managed to get everyone laptops and vpns etc etc in a pretty quick - Andie Mar 12, 10:19
A+ -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:18 1
- Hundreds of employees, two offices, and we largely just turned off the lights and went full remote. - Beryllium Mar 12, 11:12

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