Liu Dabang of the Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises: Business friends reacted positively to working from home earlier than the government

Political situation

Written by: Lin Jian

2020-07-21 10:40

In the third wave of the new crown pneumonia outbreak, the government announced on Sunday (19th) that civil servants will work from home and only retain essential and emergency services, and called on private companies to also arrange for employees to work at home. Liu Dabang, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises, said that the epidemic is very serious this time. Many business friends around him have arranged for employees to work at home before the government.

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Liu Dabang said that there are many business friends around him. Last week he started to arrange employees to work at home. The specific number has not been carefully investigated for the time being. However, his perception is more positive than the last wave of the epidemic because he knows two friends around him. Working from home has reservations. This time they took the initiative to arrange work at home before the government announced it, because they were worried that if an employee was infected, the entire company would be suspended.

He pointed out that certain types of jobs, such as factory production and retail, are indeed unlikely to work at home. This requires employers and employees to discuss this, depending on the mutual trust between employers and employees. Liu Dabang pointed out that he will discuss with some employees who need to go to work in the company today, and try to arrange drivers to pick them up to work to reduce the chance of employees getting infected on public transportation.

Liu Dabang pointed out that as a businessman, it is inevitable for employees to work at home to have a certain impact on productivity, but there is always a need. If there are hundreds of diagnoses a day, not to mention that employees dare not go to work, and employers will be afraid. He also pointed out that as a manufacturer, face-to-face communication is actually very important. Only visual meetings can affect the quality of production. For example, if you have seen product models that have been manufactured upside down, face-to-face meetings can avoid these misunderstandings.

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