Over the past few months, it’s become evident that businesses are going to be dealing with new protocols to maintain safe workplaces as they resume operations. There are new cleaning procedures that will need to be implemented, along with employee screening, headcount monitoring, and distancing measures that will all have to be implemented. There are […]
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If the past few months have taught us anything, it’s that businesses need technology to be flexible and be able to adjust and adapt to any circumstances. The good news is the technology has been around for years to enable remote workforces, from knowledge workers to contact center agents. As we’ve seen businesses adapt to […]
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With all the contact tracing and employee screening apps getting so much attention as businesses re-open, what about workplaces? Shouldn’t they, too, be tested? If your workers are all symptom-free, that doesn’t mean your office can’t become contaminated, and we know how quickly this virus can spread. If a doorknob, countertop, or other surface is […]
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As we watch confirmed COVID-19 cases surge across the country, even as businesses have started re-opening, the case for technology to support safe workplaces becomes stronger by the day. Employers can hardly afford to lose large portions of their workers to illness, and employees need to feel safe as they return to their jobs. HT […]
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While many companies are hard at work developing solutions to promote safe workplaces and employee safety, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase many technologies that were already emerging as dominant trends. Among them is online shopping. Perhaps not surprisingly, given the lockdowns and simple fear of becoming infected, 76% of consumers have turned to […]
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As businesses continue to try to re-open their doors and resume operations, many states are seeing an increase on confirmed COVID-19 cases. This makes it even more imperative that companies invest in workplace safety measures. That means appropriate disinfecting procedures, distancing policies, education, screening, and other means of ensuring safe work environments for employees whose […]
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With businesses and other activities starting to open up after a three-month COVID-19 hiatus, naturally, there are ongoing concerns about the continued spread of the virus. More than half of U.S. states have seen recent upticks in confirmed cases, with a dozen seeing record numbers of new cases, after initiating their re-opening phases. Because most […]
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Wash your hands. It’s kind of a common sense thing to do, and something we all should do regularly anyway, but it’s become an area of extreme focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone should be well aware of the CDC recommendations for when and how to wash your hands to reduce risk of infection. Naturally, […]
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As office buildings and other facilities continue to re-open after three months of lockdown, business owners and building managers have had to follow a series of health and safety protocols before allowing people in. Countless hardware and software vendors have released products to help companies comply with new requirements that will likely be in place […]
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During the past three months, the tech community has quickly come to the aid in the battle against COVID-19. Many have provided solutions to enable companies to rapidly adopt teleworking. Others have created solutions to help ensure workplace safety. Some have focused specifically on frontline workers, like Off Their Plate, a relief organization launched by […]
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After three months of COVID-19 lockdowns, businesses are slowly starting to open their doors and allow employees back into facilities. While many companies are able to continue operating in a remote capacity, others need workers on-site. At the very least, those companies need to follow a number of health and safety guidelines, which involve capacity […]
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The lockdowns that were put in place across the world in March caused significant challenges for millions of businesses created an opportunity for many tech companies. Most immediately, vendors with cloud-based communications and other business solutions had an immediate opportunity to help companies transition to remote working, literally overnight. Judging from the increase in usage […]
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The world has changed dramatically over the past three months – much more than most people expected it would. Many of these changes were bound to happen anyway, but COVID-19 pushed the tech sector into hyperdrive to deliver solutions that would enable a rapid transition to teleworking, faster testing, contact tracing, safe re-opening, better workplace […]
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More than 8 million confirmed cases. Three months of lockdowns and remote working. Phased re-openings with new health and safety protocols. It’s been a crazy 2020 thanks to the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and by all estimates, it’s not close to being over. Still, the general consensus is we can’t keep people at […]
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As more and more businesses re-open their physical locations after three months of being closed, health and safety should be top of mind for management and employees. Quite simply, after having to deal with an unprecedented shutdown of nearly all activities, it’s in everyone’s best interest to avoid playing a role in continued spreading of […]
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For three months, people have been unable to participate in most of their normal activities – at least the way they’re used to them. Everything from working to shopping to dining to entertainment has all changed. Now, as restrictions are being loosened, some facilities are able to operate in some capacity, while others are still […]
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For the past three months, millions of companies have been working entirely remotely, having been pushed into a remote capacity due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Some were able to adjust very quickly, while others had to adopt new technologies to enable workers to be productive. Now that governments are starting to slowly life restrictions […]
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While most of the technology talk around COVID-19 has revolved around testing and vaccines, disinfecting, telehealth, return-to-work and work-from-home solutions, there’s a significant event on the horizon that is already being impacted. With the next U.S. presidential election coming in November, campaigning is well under way, and we have already seen how the pandemic has […]
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There are so many things businesses have to consider as they re-open as we try to move into the next phases of managing the COVID-19 pandemic. After being isolated for the better part of three months, it’s natural for people to want to get back to some of their normal work and personal activities. There’s […]
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After three months of basically being confined to homes, there’s been a lot of excitement about states starting to allow businesses to re-open and to allow people to start resuming some of their normal routines. But that excitement may be a case of a few lour voices overpowering the majority – as they say, the […]
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