The passing of one Covid-year
It’s been a year.
A year into the unknown and can I use the word unprecedented, or has it been overused? I wanted to write about this last year from a business and home-life perspective for both bear different responsibilities. It came as a seismic shock, coated in eery silence, to be locked down for those first weeks which turned into months. Overnight our world and lives morphed into a dystopian vision that would win the Booker Prize.
For most of our staff, they had or were bought laptops so they work from home, but we had different circumstances to deal with in terms of how the business would function during a time of pandemic. For instance one of our members of staff wanted to continue working in our small office in Boscombe. The answer was to accommodate that request with the proviso that no-one else could do the same.
In the case of our data centre facility we needed at least one person on site, you know, to turn things off and on again, and occasionally two, to safely handle heavy equipment. Above all, there was one absolute imperative we had to ensure in the face of national lockdown – we were the people keeping online systems running so other businesses could work from home. The GOV UK website even classified our IT and data infrastructure sector as key workers. Not equating ourselves to front line nurses obviously, but we had a responsibility to provide a level of service so other businesses could function through the pandemic.
The new nirvana, working from home.
