Saturday, March 21, 2020

Coronavirus News (13)

Coronavirus: California issues state-wide 'stay at home' order
New York and neighboring states order hair salons and nail parlors to close
Cuomo orders most New Yorkers to stay inside — ‘we’re all under quarantine now’
My Son Wants to Move His Family Across the Country so I Can Be Day Care
15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered The scale and scope of what we’re seeing, with organizations of 5,000 or 10,000 employees, asking people to work from home very quickly, is unprecedented......... There’s ample research showing that virtual teams can be completely equal to co-located ones in terms of trust and collaboration. It just requires discipline...... People lose the unplanned watercooler or cappuccino conversations with colleagues in remote work. These are actually big and important parts of the workday that have a direct impact on performance. How do we create those virtually? ..... WhatsApp, WeChat, or Viber. ...... One more piece of advice: Exercise. It’s critical for mental well-being. ........ Number one, make sure that team members constantly feel like they know what’s going on. You need to communicate what’s happening at the organizational level because when they’re at home, they feel like they’ve been extracted away from the mothership. They wonder what’s happening at the company, with clients, and with common objectives. The communication around those are extremely important. ......... Productivity does not have to go down at all. It can be maintained, even enhanced, because commutes and office distractions are gone. ........ Another problem might be your ability to resolve problems quickly when you can’t meet in person, in real time. That might create delays........ “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ....... You can’t monitor the process, so your review will have to be outcome-based. ...... We have enterprise-wide social media tools that allow us to store and capture data, to have one-to-many conversations, to share best practices, and to learn. ........ “Folks, when we have these meetings, we do it in a nice way, we turn off of phones, we don’t check emails or multitask.” ....... spend the first six to seven minutes of a meeting checking in. Don’t go straight to your agenda items. ........... Start with whomever is the newest or lowest status person or the one who usually speaks the least. ...... Say you have a video conference about a topic. You follow it up with an email or a Slack message. You should have multiple touchpoints through various media to continue the trail of conversation. ....... Allowing people to disagree in order to sharpen the team’s thinking is a very positive thing. ....... you might even want to generate or model a little of disagreement — always over work, tasks or processes, of course, never anything personal. .......... You don’t have to eat lunch at 12pm. You might walk your dog at 2pm. Things are much more fluid, and managers just have to trust that employees will do their best to get their work done. ...... Maybe you can’t wine and dine. But you can do a lot. Be creative.

Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health
Harrowing video from a hospital at the center of Italy's coronavirus outbreak shows doctors overwhelmed by critical patients



Italy calls in military to enforce coronavirus lockdown as 627 people die in 24 hours
'India must prepare for a tsunami of coronavirus cases' if the same mathematical models applied in the US or UK were applied to India, the country could be dealing with about 300 million cases, of which about four to five million could be severe...... Official figures show the country has 149 active cases, but many public health experts worry that the country has conducted far too few tests.
US tax filing deadline moved to July 15, Mnuchin says
Trump says US not currently considering a nationwide lockdown
Three pillars of Trump’s case for reelection are collapsing all at once
New Jersey woman writes about watching four relatives die from coronavirus
Walmart to pay nearly $550 million in employee bonuses: ‘It’s almost like a mini stimulus package’
This Is Not A Recession. This Is An Ice Age

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