Work At Home Due To COVID-19
The global epidemic of Covid-19 pneumonia has forced people to change their work and living habits; schools, shopping stores and offices are closed, and most people stay at home. If the type of work permits, it is recommended that everyone stay at home (Work From Home, WFH). Therefore, the number of applications for online work and meetings has increased, while shopping, banking, financial management, film and television entertainment, and even takeaway are all transferred to online ordering; online classes , Online consultations are emerging. In short, everything changes from offline to online.
In fact, when we entered the era of technology in the past, although there were many products and services, they were not widely used. However, this epidemic quickly changed our habits, and everyone can handle office work without leaving home. Although they are forced to stay at home, it has changed human behavior and become a habit. This trend is expected to become more acceptable and broadly use.
For example, in Japan, the culture of “office workers” has always been deeply rooted. Both employers and employees believe that working in the office is considered on duty even though the Japanese government has promoted work at home related policies several years ago, most employers also believe that if the employees are at home they cannot work properly, so not many companies responded to the government avocation. This time the global epidemic is severe. In order to prevent employees from successively contracting diseases and affecting their overall operations, companies have to let employees work from home. Because everyone knows that as long as one employee is infected, it may affect the safety of the entire office, floor, and even the entire building. In addition to environmental disinfection, many people may need to be isolated and quarantine for quite a long time.
Therefore, some experts believe that the current epidemic has allowed the management of Japanese companies to break the shackles of the old, so that employees and employers have a new experience, which may help promote related policies in the future.
In the face of the epidemic, many companies have accelerated their consideration of establishing remote office solutions. Although many people doubt the productivity of telecommuting, think that it is difficult to manage time, and cannot participate in interpersonal interaction in the workplace, which affects creativity and emotions; but some people think that working at home can save working time and abandon office thinking.
To maintain the daily operation of the company, there must be many employees who need to work from home, and the trend seems to continue in the short term. Therefore, in addition to providing various online office services, companies must also provide sufficient network bandwidth and enhance network security to make them more comprehensive. How to better telecommute? I believe that it is not just the application of some office tools that can solve the problem, but also a good governance method.
Undeniably, the trend of telecommuting has become unstoppable. Until the epidemic is effectively controlled, online office and home work are still the general trend, and the use of encryption software to connect to the internal network from the external network may have to be maintained for a period of time; therefore, companies must consider network efficiency, bandwidth and reliability.
As for networking equipment, especially the security system that employees connect to the company’s network equipment from their homes, we still need to pay more attention for leaking of confidential information.