Any Business Owners 18:30 - Mar 14 with 1257 views | Ace_High1 | on here? How are you reacting to the current situation? I have a reasonably sized office team (14 people) and then engineering staff working out and about. Have not sent anyone home yet but wondering when I will need to. Contingency plans regarding remote working for office are in place, not a lot we can do with the engineering staff other than send them home. | | | | |
Any Business Owners on 18:39 - Mar 14 with 1206 views | blueconscience | Business as usual at the moment. I would love to just lock myself away for a few weeks, but just isn’t an option. Could only do maybe 60% of my job Whilst working from home. | |
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Any Business Owners on 18:40 - Mar 14 with 1200 views | Ace_High1 |
Any Business Owners on 18:39 - Mar 14 by blueconscience | Business as usual at the moment. I would love to just lock myself away for a few weeks, but just isn’t an option. Could only do maybe 60% of my job Whilst working from home. |
Yes, same. We still have clients with project deadlines that need to be hit over next week or so.... although if we did have someone with symptoms we would take action. | | | |
Any Business Owners on 18:49 - Mar 14 with 1163 views | monytowbray | I can do my job 100% remotely and I’m self employed so I am very lucky to have that option. | |
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Any Business Owners on 19:12 - Mar 14 with 1103 views | Guthrum |
Any Business Owners on 18:49 - Mar 14 by monytowbray | I can do my job 100% remotely and I’m self employed so I am very lucky to have that option. |
I cannot work from home. Not possible. Would have to cease trading in the event of an extended lockdown. | |
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Any Business Owners on 19:14 - Mar 14 with 1086 views | footers |
Any Business Owners on 18:49 - Mar 14 by monytowbray | I can do my job 100% remotely and I’m self employed so I am very lucky to have that option. |
You're self-employed? | |
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Any Business Owners on 19:45 - Mar 14 with 1016 views | borge | I have two small companies with 15 people. We can all work remotely and we're having a practice run on Monday, but suspect we'll not return to the office for the foreseeable. The bigger concern is that 40% of my business is organising face to face research interviews. All projects have been postponed and whilst the other 60% of my business should be fine, I don't know how long I can keep paying people to do nothing. As far as possible I will get them involved in the aspects of the business that remain viable, but to what extent do I risk my own family's financial security in order to protect the financial security of my team? Having spent ten years building the business and being very prudent, it's a tough one and slightly galling to see something that no one can control undoing our hard work. My aim in being prudent was firstly to ensure I could protect my team against any downturn and secondly to have a better future. Possibly going to fail on both fronts now. Very interested to hear how other business owners feel. | | | |
Any Business Owners on 19:50 - Mar 14 with 1000 views | KBsSocks | Browser-based, open source web-conferencing software might come in handy for some remote-working: http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html I'm sure there's somebody on here who could set it up on a server - anyone ? | |
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Any Business Owners on 19:53 - Mar 14 with 991 views | monytowbray |
Any Business Owners on 19:14 - Mar 14 by footers | You're self-employed? |
Went freelance in November after I got fed up of office politics and bosses. | |
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Any Business Owners on 19:54 - Mar 14 with 978 views | BanksterDebtSlave | Self isolating on and in multiple lawns and woodlands. | |
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Any Business Owners on 20:02 - Mar 14 with 951 views | Ace_High1 |
Any Business Owners on 19:45 - Mar 14 by borge | I have two small companies with 15 people. We can all work remotely and we're having a practice run on Monday, but suspect we'll not return to the office for the foreseeable. The bigger concern is that 40% of my business is organising face to face research interviews. All projects have been postponed and whilst the other 60% of my business should be fine, I don't know how long I can keep paying people to do nothing. As far as possible I will get them involved in the aspects of the business that remain viable, but to what extent do I risk my own family's financial security in order to protect the financial security of my team? Having spent ten years building the business and being very prudent, it's a tough one and slightly galling to see something that no one can control undoing our hard work. My aim in being prudent was firstly to ensure I could protect my team against any downturn and secondly to have a better future. Possibly going to fail on both fronts now. Very interested to hear how other business owners feel. |
It is a difficult compromise. We can only deliver our services by sending people to customers sites, but of course we then have to consider the health and wellbeing of our people. I think its only a matter of time until someone gets ill and then we have to implement our contingency plans. | | | |
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