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<div style="direction:ltr">Just noticing a lot of suppliers are out of things. Laptops, switches, monitors, routers etc</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr" dir="ltr">Could be in for a long wait for gear. </div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> AusNOG <ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Johnathon Brandis <jcbrandis@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 9, 2020 12:31:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au><br>
<b>Cc:</b> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net <AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] COVID-19 Business Prep Suggestions</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Gday, for you contractors out there, double check your Insurance’s, just cover off some risk exposure you may not be aware of.<br>
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Quick tip, apologies for the spam. <br>
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> On 9 Mar 2020, at 3:20 pm, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
> If your workforce is not used to working remote then:<br>
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> - ensuring they know how to and who to contact for IT support? (Is there an external number for that?)<br>
> - ensuring you have things like Zoom/BlueJeans/Webex setup for people to use *and* that they have the things they need to drive them (eg. Working headsets)<br>
> - do they know how to use it, schedule meetings using it etc?<br>
> - ensuring that any communication apps (eg. Slack) works for people and that they have appropriate groups setup.<br>
> - ensure you have a working/upto date contacts list? Not all companies have a nice, easy to use website for finding this. If people are in offices all the time they just may not have workmates/managers mobile numbers.<br>
> - if people need things like laptop chargers to work then can you get them delivered? Do they have a suitable space at home? (This is OH&S stuff).<br>
> - if you have a time clock based work force (eg. They need to show hours) then have you allowed for the reporting of work?<br>
> - What do you need to teach managers to help them manage their staff, conduct meetings etc?<br>
> - do you need some quick guides?<br>
> <br>
> Some of this is basic stuff, but, if you’ve got a work force who’s not used to it then think about how to enable to the workforce and make it less scary for them and enable their productivity.<br>
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> MMC<br>
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>> On 9 Mar 2020, at 2:29 pm, Robert Haylock <robert.haylock@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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>> Hey all,<br>
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>> Hearing a few IT related plans crop up, especially around VPN concentrator capacity and external capacity to handle the additional load of a much greater than normal percentage of employees working from home.<br>
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>> Obviously, if you are lucky enough to have many services moved to the cloud (Office 365, GSuite, etc) then the load is a bit more distributed and the load moves to the residential broadband networks, but I am interested in any other IT related things to
prepare you may be recommending to your customers/employers/bosses?<br>
>> <br>
>> Rob<br>
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