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February 26, 2020 The U.S. oil company Chevron closed its London office in the Canary Wharf neighborhood after two employees returned from vacation to areas affected by the coronavirus epidemic and showed symptoms. The company, BBC reported, sent about 300 employees home from the offices and asked everyone to telecommute. "We continue to monitor the situation very closely, using guidelines from international and local health authorities," a spokeswoman for Daily Mail said.

Directive in Italy for teleworking in the PA
In Italy, teleworking in the public administration is looked at as a possible solution in certain cases. And there is a directive in this sense by Minister Dadone.

Also in the PA, to privilege "flexible methods of carrying out the work", favoring those with pathologies, commuters and those on whom childcare is burdened. Call for "strengthening the use of agile work". The "telematic method" is also recommended for conferences and meetings. This was established by the directive signed by the PA minister, Fabiana Dadone, with the "first indications regarding the containment and management of the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19 outside the affected municipalities of Veneto and Lombardy.

"We are faced with a policy document that we provide to administrations to protect workers and citizens. We are putting in place all the measures that serve to balance the essential need to protect health and guarantee safety in the workplace with the need to continue the complex state machine and to ensure the essential services, which the country still needs, "explains PA Minister Fabiana Dadone in a statement. "But we are also working - goes back to underlining - to a rule that can give full professional protection to PA employees who will be forced to absent themselves for reasons of force majeure. We move forward with decision and rationality to best respond to the coronavirus epidemic" . Among other things, the directive states, as is highlighted in the ministry note, "preference for meetings, conferences and training sessions carried out using telematic methods that can also replace most of the national and international missions, excluding those that are strictly necessary. And it should be noted: "Only for specific activities and where the health authority prescribes it, for individual protection such as disposable masks and gloves." The "dissemination of the decalogue of rules of conduct useful for the safety of public employees and users" is also envisaged ".

"Testing the safety of remote work"
Certainly with remote working, complex scenarios for data protection are opening up as noted by Acronis, among the world leaders in cyber protection, in a statement. “Many businesses are turning to video conferencing, file synchronization and sharing and other remote work solutions. The global market for corporate file synchronization and sharing should reach $ 24.4 billion by 2027 compared to $ 3.4 billion in 2018. "

The fact is, the note continues, that now “companies must implement this technology so that employees can work from home and at the same time access and transfer data in a safe and secure way. While some employers fear that remote working will create a drop in employee performance, the biggest concern today is - in fact - that of securing data. As for the corporate network, IT teams can easily protect professionals' devices, but this becomes much more difficult to do when an employee accesses the system from outside the network. Outside the corporate network, devices are easily subject to attacks from third parties and cybercriminals. Attacking these unprotected endpoints can reveal the employee's login credentials to cybercriminals, thus creating a gateway for them to access the company system or even to use the computer virus to block corporate data. "