Tag: coronavirus

Mar302020 by EPHNo Comments

Fear of The D4rk

With ominous predictions of 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the US alone, and the worst possibly ramping up in the next few weeks, many people are starting to experience feelings of dread. Life has been altered into an almost nightmarish state. For those who have been personally affected by the virus, the nightmare is all too real. Loss of family members, illness, complications from the disease, loss of income, (unemployment number predictions don't look very good at this time) and trying to defend against an invisible menace wears heavy on many.For some, this may seem like a weird sort of holiday. Those who feel they are immune to the worst of the disease may have rude awakenings if it turns out that they are not. For others, this may seem like a major inconvenience, which of course ...

Mar292020 by EPHNo Comments

The company has left the building

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What is a company? Is it a building, an office, a memo, a directive to point the way into the never ending cost cutting unknown? No, for a lot of the world the company is the people who do stuff that in some shape or form creates some value. It’s the people who move things, make things, fix things, maintain things, process things. The situation now has many of your companies (the people) no longer in the office or buildings, but working from home. In some cases, not even working, just not at work. Luckily your company still has long digital tentacles that can somewhat tether your work force together through often meaningless conference calls and possibly poorly animated web based meetings, (hooray for extra long PowerPoint presentations) but this approach does have limitations. Monitoring

Mar82020 by EPHNo Comments

Heed the Plough Wind

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Like the Plough Wind before a storm - the news and internet are buzzing with impending doom from the Corona Virus. The noise has gone up a few levels recently, but still, some companies may be waiting too long before pulling the trigger and asking their workers to work from home (if they can - some work doesn’t permit remote options). Of course, there could be some extreme mitigation ideas that could involve being stuck at work. Image the doors closing as giant padlocks and chains reinforce the stay in the office mandate.....ah, but that would never happen in the free world........right? Dedication versus incarceration, what an image that conjures up. If your area falls under a state of emergency you may be seeing difficulties already impacting everyday productivity.

Feb92020 by EPHNo Comments

Behold An Ashen Horse

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Is this the preamble to some very dark days? The news is somewhat muted in their coverage of the Novel Corona-virus (2019-nCoV). Some videos on Twitter and Reddit are disturbing, yet seem almost unreal. It's almost as if the mainstream media in the US and Canada are taking the whole "Pandemic" reports in stride and low key. Even the official updates sound like fodder for a bad B horror movie where initial reports play in the background as chaos slowly erupts. Thank goodness we have Microsoft Teams, Team Viewer, Google G Suite, Office 365 and VPNs to work remotely should schools close and public gatherings become precarious endeavors. Of course, that's hopefully a ways off at this point, but it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have everything you need to work from home should the need ar...