The Coronavirus Outbreak Can Make Work-From-Home a Necessity

The Coronavirus Outbreak Can Make Work-From-Home a Necessity. Todays headline news show the high likelihood of a wide spread coronavirus outbreak. Working from home might no longer be a privilege but a necessity.

That means a lot more people trying to organize client meetings and group discussions via video-chat apps, or discussing plans on productivity software platforms like Microsoft Teams.

One of the most disturbing factors for employees is the fast-changing impact of the virus, which is prompting daily changes in corporate directives. A larger share of the US and global workforce will need to work from home. That falls in line with the outlook Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, laid out in a news briefing Tuesday.

Messionner said businesses should make plans to allow employees to work remotely, adding that large in-person meetings and conferences should be canceled. “We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare, in the expectation that this could be bad,” Messionner said.

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