The results of an (unscientific) opinion poll conducted by the «Emirates Today» website via its digital platforms, on supporting the implementation of the remote work system on some jobs, with the increase in cases of emerging coronavirus around the world, that 89% of the participants on Facebook They support the implementation of the teleworking system, as 84% of respondents supported it on Instagram, and 82% on Twitter, an average of about 85%.
The number of participants in the poll, through the three platforms: "Facebook", "Twitter" and "Instagram", exceeded 17 thousand and 500 participants, who voted by majority to support the implementation of the system.
In detail, 89% of the respondents supported, via the newspaper’s account on Facebook, the application of the remote work system, while 11% rejected the application of this system, with a total of 13,800 votes, and through the newspaper’s account on Twitter, 82% supported The decision, against 10% refusal, and 8% of the 1700 voters answered "I don't know."
And through the newspaper's account on "Instagram", about 2000 people participated in the poll, and the result of their vote was 84% support the implementation of the system, and 16% against its implementation.
During the activities of the International Forum on Government Communication, the spokesperson for the National Authority for Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management, Saif Juma Al Dhaheri, said that there were efforts begun two weeks ago, in cooperation with institutions to ensure readiness to work remotely, based on developments in the situation, after confirming the readiness of institutions to work on distance. In a move that helps stop the spread of the new Corona virus, Twitter has asked its employees to work from their homes.
The company’s management said, in a post on the official account, that it “strongly encourages” its 5,000 employees around the world “not to go to their workplaces”, as well as its decision to stop all “unnecessary” trips and activities for its employees.
The move is similar to measures taken by several companies in Asia to combat the virus.
The employees of the European headquarters of Google (Irish capital Dublin) worked from their homes on Tuesday, in a step taken by the company, to test the effectiveness of the application of the remote work system.
Other leading technology companies, including Facebook and Google, have postponed or canceled their events and conferences in the United States.
It is noteworthy that the Dubai Government's Human Resources Management Law of 2018 gave government departments the flexibility to implement the remote work system and flexible working hours.
At a time when the number of deaths from the emerging coronavirus around the world reached about 3200 cases, while the infected people exceeded 90 thousand people, most of them in China, the World Health Organization is close to declaring a state of the epidemic at the global level, with the emergence of cases of the virus in 81 countries, while it has turned South Korea, Iran and Italy to the outbreak centers outside China.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Community Protection called on citizens and residents to avoid traveling, in view of the current situation of the emerging virus, and its spread in several countries, while state schools will start, starting from next Sunday, the implementation of the "remote learning" system.
In a circular issued on the third of this March, the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources called on ministries and federal agencies to give their employees, mothers of children registered in nurseries, flexibility in working hours, for a period of two hours per day at the beginning or end of working hours.
Teleworking plans
A poll conducted by GulfTalent, the region's leading employer website, revealed last week that with the spread of the Corona virus in various parts of the world, a third of corporate managers in the Gulf began planning to direct half of the employees to work from home.
The survey, which included 1,600 companies from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, showed that 35% of companies based in the Gulf would require employees to work from home, pointing out that 6% had just begun work plans from home, to avoid the spread of Corona », 5% confirmed plans to be implemented soon, 12% retracted this concept, and another 12% were arranged to work remotely before the outbreak.
54% of the survey respondents said that they have no remote work plans yet, while 11% said that their companies will not consider the possibility of employees working from home.
Among the countries of the region, Bahrain recorded the highest rate of remote work plans with 38% of companies, Qatar came second, the third Emirates and Kuwait fourth with 37%. In Saudi Arabia, 30% of companies reported that they plan to work from home, while companies in the Sultanate of Oman recorded the lowest teleworking rate of 18%.
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They are polled, through the newspaper's Facebook account, who supported the application of the work system at a distance.