North Manchester General Hospital
新冠病毒已使英国处于战时状态，看看小公司怎么做。谨以此文记录这特殊的时刻。
在此过程中一定还有更多的通知，就不再加进我的博文了。除了学校停课，英超停赛外，所有的酒吧，歺馆等今天必须停止营业，影院，俱乐部等也必须关闭。好消息是政府付这些停工行业员工80%的工资，目前有效期是3个月，如果有必要的话会延长付款时间。https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51982005
有些机场的主要航站楼关闭因为没多少人出行。还有其他好多非強制措施，人类历史少见，经济损失肯定超911了，预计这种情况至少持续半年？不敢想象后面会发生什么？
Notice 1 02/03/2020 Corona Virus : *** Working Practice
Hi All,
You will all be aware of the current exceptional situation.
Given the nature of our business and the wide variety of personal circumstances that differing people in the business will have, we think it is important that we are clear on our expectations for how *** can meet this particular new challenge.
As everyone will be in a different personal situation, we acknowledge that each person’s assessment of the risk to their health and inconvenience will be different. As well as considering your own health, age and existing medical status, you also need to consider those of other family members who may, in some cases, be in a ‘more at risk’ group than yourself.
We therefore believe everyone should decide on a personal level whether to travel or not travel on business, be that for an individual trip and/or in general.
If you decide not to travel, then, in order to enable us to continue to meet our work commitments, please can you ensure adequate alternative arrangements are made that will still enable us to meet our client needs / expectations. All our clients will be facing the need to address this same issue so some changes in working practices during the coming months are likely to become commonplace. If we therefore explain our need for making any changes as being due to the need to accommodate the differing personal circumstances each person is facing – i.e. we are adopting a sensible and pragmatic approach based on differing personal needs - then this should be seen as a reasonable and measured response.
Furthermore, when you do decide to travel, if you have the option to use your own private vehicle for the trip rather than public transport then that may be something you may wish to consider. You should, of course, also follow the advice given by the health authorities for how to minimise your risk.
If you have any questions, then please do let me know.
Notice 2 09/03/2020
Hi All,
Further to my note last week, please see the latest news from the BBC at this link below.
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson to hold emergency Cobra meeting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51796072
This is suggesting that the government may, at some point this week, ask people to work from home and take other ‘social distancing’ measures. If so, we would then ask that you look to minimise your business travel and specifically ask clients whether any meetings you need to have would be acceptable to be conducted online.
As you know, we do have adequate facilities in place for conducting online meetings and, although they are not a complete substitute for all face-to-face meetings, they should at least be suitable for discussing and/or debriefing existing projects.
The area of our work that could be most impacted is new business development, where a face-to-face meeting is usually required before new clients will consider commissioning a new supplier.
Our expectation is that this necessity may change if the need for ‘social distancing’ persists for some time but at this point it is possible that some of our new business / new client meetings may still need face-to-face contact.
Please therefore continue to use personal discretion in deciding whether a face-to-face meeting is necessary and take into account your personal circumstances in deciding whether you are able to attend. In addition, please consider the arrangements for any colleagues who cannot travel, so they can join meetings by web/phone if required.
Hopefully, this situation will not last for more than 1 - 2 months but obviously we during that time we will need to continue to review and adapt our ways of working on a regular basis as may be required.
Many thanks for all your help in this.
Notice 3，18/03/2020 General Notice-not Special for ***, but useful to read
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Notice 4 20/03/2020
Dear All,
Given the significance of the latest Government announcements by the Prime Minister on Coronavirus (COVID-19), from the perspective of a service provider we understand the impact this situation may potentially have on all of our businesses.
During this uncertain time, the current advice to allow staff to work from home (where possible) in order to reduce the possible spread of the Covid-19 virus has seen our clients on site varying their working hours to avoid peak travel times and limit the number of people in the office at any one time. Despite this uncertainty, we are preparing for every scenario and must remain positive. Our team will continue to provide telephone services as normal, however we wanted to share with you the actions we are taking now.
We will endeavour to physically man our 2nd floor reception at *** Piccadilly and will be operating on site on a skeletal staff basis, between the hours of 9am and 3pm. However you will always be able to speak to someone when you need to as we have the right technology in place to make remote-working possible for all of our office-based team.
In regards to post, ** will still be managing the post on a daily basis between the hours of 9am – 2pm. Should you require any special post to be sent out, your request must be sent before 2pm each day.
We have seen a very heavy decline in meeting room use over the past week or so, however should you need to use a meeting room, please try and schedule meetings between the current manned hours of 9am and 3pm.
Whilst we undergo these changes, based on the advice of Public Health England, following ongoing guidance we have increased hygiene measures in our offices and we are supplying hand-sanitisers at reception and encouraging everyone to wash their hands, frequently. We do ask however if you have been on site recently, that you keep us informed of any confirmed cases, so that we may take the appropriate actions. Our key advice remains to be to follow the Government guidance.
As this situation is changing daily, we will review the situation frequently and welcome any feed back from you.
Finally, keep well and if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the team.
