The corona virus is going to hit the USA hard in the next few months. There will be many employees calling in sick from the corona virus, or due to their child's school being closed due to the corona virus outbreak. Now is the time to totally test the Wells Fargo disaster recovery plan where all essential employees that can do so have their laptops at home to work remotely and still keep Wells Fargo in business with their continued work efforts. Employees who do not currently have laptops to work from home should be provided with one. Things will be shut down all across the USA. Many people will become sick. This is actually Bank of America's disaster recovery plan. All employees with laptops will bring them home with them daily in order to logon to them remotely as a business continuity plan. The new strategy outlined by Wells Fargo to consolidate everyone into a common work area is outdated and needs to be reassessed in the current disease spreading environment. People can ALL work remotely and still keep Wells Fargo running smoothly, as usual.
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So the world health organization is wrong? It’s their numbers I was citing. .2% mortality rate if you’re under 50. If you’re 80 in a nursing home it’s a concern but so is the flu, pneumonia, and everything else. Go stock pile toliet paper like all of the other sheep.
@5omg+13QRSvYH, dude, seriously, they're saying 70% of Americans are going to be exposed to COVID19, it's too late to be stopped, and we're going to lose between 480,000 and possibly up to 5,000,000 people.
COVID19 is 10 to 20 times deadlier that the flu.
Most of them will be older or have pre-existing health conditions, and you seem to be saying "so what".
How about we all remember who told us that this is being overblown in a few months when COVID19 is in full bloom, and we never trust those sources again.
The virus isn't a liberal or some deep state conspiracy, it's a virus, just like all the others that we've been fighting since the Spanish Flu a hundred years ago, but this one spreads just from breathing the same air.
No one needs to cough on you to infect you.
Medical science has kept most of us safe from them, but this one is different, and it was expected.
We should have been prepared but we are not.
Disaster recovery plan? Lolz. We can’t even keep our data center from going down for weeks because we mistakenly tripped off the sprinkler
heres my source. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-s-x-demographics/
Stop being a sheep. There are portions of the population that should be concerned but the mass hysteria is ridiculous and totally based on nonsense
Dear @3aig+13QRSvYH,
You are not a doctor. Stop giving medical opinions.
Or at least show your work and quote your source.
Signed,
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Agile is simply a “just git ‘er done” approach and a new home for technologically obsolete PMs who should be put out to pasture to crack a new whip at a scrum. Just a joke of a concept high misses the true agility of small teams working together towards a goal with minimal overhead.
Look, COVID-19 is no big deal unless you’re 80 or have serious underlying health issues; especially respiratory problems. Everyone is freaking out for no reason. That said, the top execs are requiring each group to do a special BCP session for the virus with 10%, 20%, and 40% loss of staff scenarios. Telecommute was discussed as part of that in my area but largely ignored given the clear message from Charlie is to eliminate remote work.
@1ikp+13QRSvYH - They just want to say they are going agile. And in effect it turns into "mini-waterefall" that will stress everyone out every 2 weeks.
I wonder if our bank regulators should question the wisdom of forcing employees into the office during a plague. If we lose key critical staff, our ability to respond to outages could be severely impacted. They can’t help if they are hospitalized.
The other banks, our competitors, are safeguarding their staff. They are telling them to work from home. They realize that trained staff are critical resources.
What is going on at Wells? What is up with the inflexibility that this new Agile transformation process brings? How many successful sprints will we have with teammembers catching this virus and being hospitalized for 2-3 weeks? I thought one of the advantages of Agile was that it is adaptable to circumstances, not rigid. Seems it is just the latest dogma.
I guess disaster planning is just not our strength.
Well, I don't wish anyone get that particular strain of virus. This thing is in New York City now ... what if a high ranking person in Wells Fargo catch this thing? I wonder if that would change their perspective afterwards? As a "healthy" person can be a carrier - it is hard to tell who to avoid?
This will be a really good test on the viability on location strategy. It seems like other companies are encouraging telecommuting and Wells is going the other way! Of course, when this location strategy thing was first conceived, there was no 2019-nCoV.
Dangerous
Even if people are forced to work from home temporarily it won't change anything longterm. This virus is not your savior.