Coronavirus - what are companies doing
#61
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In the past few days we've had a ban on all large meetings (doesn't matter where in the world they are) and cancellation of large beginning of the year sales kickoff events in AP (even those outside China).
I expect any AP travel this year will be limited to small, customer-driven meetings in places like Singapore, Australia, or Japan, but we won't see approval to attend any major events or meetings (internal or external) in AP for the foreseeable future.
I expect any AP travel this year will be limited to small, customer-driven meetings in places like Singapore, Australia, or Japan, but we won't see approval to attend any major events or meetings (internal or external) in AP for the foreseeable future.
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#63
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Interesting one with the company my wife works for.
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
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Interesting one with the company my wife works for.
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
That said, you're seeing an "over-abundance of caution" with this thing as it is much more contagious... Multiple companies are pulling out of large gatherings to assuage their employees (MWC 2020 for example, LG, Amazon, Sony and others are pulling out or reducing their presence this year because of the virus).
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Interesting one with the company my wife works for.
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
Err on side of caution!
Her company did the right thing. MHO.
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That said, you're seeing an "over-abundance of caution" with this thing as it is much more contagious... Multiple companies are pulling out of large gatherings to assuage their employees (MWC 2020 for example, LG, Amazon, Sony and others are pulling out or reducing their presence this year because of the virus).
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Talking with friends we're of the conclusion that it's still way over-cautious and to an extent are they trying to shun their corporate responsibility to their employees?
By keeping people away from the office they can then claim the employees are out of their control and therefore not their responsibility...
Singapore is at DORSCON orange, where it's a companies duty to measure and record employees temperatures twice in the day and if something were to go down, it would be managed in a controlled manner. Now as her company has not provided means for employees to measure their temperatures they are in a way letting the employees down. DBS have provided means for their employees to monitor their health whilst away from the office.
Also by not having your employees in a controlled environment for most of the day (in the office) does it not increase their risk as they're now exposed to the whole environment more?
For instance my wife and her colleagues have already started to get cabin fever and now do meet up in coffees shops to work together which is a far less controller environment.
What one would think is a "cautious" approach does have it's pitfalls. As I've said her company is the only one that has instigated this move. The fact that they are unique in this does perhaps point to the fact they maybe taking the incorrect approach...
Time will only tell I guess.
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So following on from the other case in tower 3 (DBS), her company has now said work from home indefinitely...
Talking with friends we're of the conclusion that it's still way over-cautious and to an extent are they trying to shun their corporate responsibility to their employees?
By keeping people away from the office they can then claim the employees are out of their control and therefore not their responsibility...
Singapore is at DORSCON orange, where it's a companies duty to measure and record employees temperatures twice in the day and if something were to go down, it would be managed in a controlled manner. Now as her company has not provided means for employees to measure their temperatures they are in a way letting the employees down.
Talking with friends we're of the conclusion that it's still way over-cautious and to an extent are they trying to shun their corporate responsibility to their employees?
By keeping people away from the office they can then claim the employees are out of their control and therefore not their responsibility...
Singapore is at DORSCON orange, where it's a companies duty to measure and record employees temperatures twice in the day and if something were to go down, it would be managed in a controlled manner. Now as her company has not provided means for employees to measure their temperatures they are in a way letting the employees down.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468
The latest data suggests that the R (spread rate) is 4.08, (about twice as high as previously reported), that is 4 people are infected by each person with an infection.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....full.pdf+html
#71
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there are different types of masks/filters depending on the substance being protected against
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Yes, it does depend on the type of pollution - do u have any scientific background or any credentials that allow you to make such a rash statement? Of course any mask is only good if it is used correctly (which, sadly most people don't).