In: Operations Management
Question: Explain how Companies has adapted/revamped its information Technologyand InformationSystems practices to adjust to the current environment (in the presence of this Pandemic).
Answer:
The Covid-19 Pandemic outbreak has taken the IT industry along with the world by storm. Social distancing is the recommended route as a safety measure from the current environment. Therefore, most of the companies have adapted the following measures for their functioning, which are as follows:
I. Work from Home to employees: IT Companies are providing work from home to its employees for the performance of their respective tasks of job.
II. More Delegation of authorities: IT Companies have provided direct client interactions and direct access to company tools to the employees, so that they can perform their tasks without any hindrance maintaining social distancing.
III. Enriched trust value towards employees: IT Companies have enriched their trust value towards its employees by assigning works and clients to them to be handled.
IV. Emergence of work tracking tools: IT Companies have assigned work tracking tools to its employees for keeping a track of their performance. For example: IT companies like Microsoft and google.
V. Freedom to operate: IT Companies have given more freedom to its employees to operate their work from home without coming to office.
VI. Video conferencing with team and customers: For having meetings with the team or the customers, video conferencing are being utilized by the employees of IT Companies.
VII. Rejection of videos containing misinformation about crisis: Many IT Companies like Apple and Google have implemented a new tool through which they automatically reject any video containing misinformation about the present crisis. Keeping in view the good of the public at large.