Government agencies in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (bodies and departments) have decided to expand the application of the permanent work experience from a distance, starting from tomorrow, Sunday, to a large number of its employees, especially in the office sectors, as the media office of the Abu Dhabi government announced yesterday the activation of this system for some of the Employees of government agencies, stressing the importance of focusing in its application on three categories of employees, while the Human Resources Authority in Abu Dhabi issued a circular that includes a set of preventive precautionary measures and measures to maintain safety and public health in government agencies and institutions in the emirate.
In detail, government agencies in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi begin expanding the application of the permanent work experience from a distance, starting tomorrow, Sunday, to a large number of its employees, especially in the office sectors, after their employees ended extensive technical and technical training programs on this system, in order to prevent the repercussions of the spread of a virus ( Covid-19) known as "Corona", and in implementation of the initiative that was launched yesterday evening, the Abu Dhabi government, under the name "Digital Month", which reflects the ambitious vision of the wise leadership to employ information technology in the service of society and upgrading the government work system, within the framework of efforts Made by various authorities Komeh in the emirate to enhance customers benefit from digital services and innovative solutions.
And «Emirates Today» alone in the number of last Tuesday, with news of the start of the activation of the “permanently distant” system between government agencies in Abu Dhabi, gradually and partially, which was initiated by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, which announced the success of the application of the system to 100 of its employees, as well as the Abu Dhabi Authority for Agriculture Food safety has applied the system to a large number of its departments, especially those related to office work.
The media office of the Abu Dhabi government announced the day before yesterday the activation of the "remote work" system for some employees of government agencies, by making use of its advanced technical system and technological readiness with international specifications, to ensure the smoothness of work and the efficiency of procedures within the framework of accelerating the strategy of digital transformation.
The media office said - on its official account on the social networking site «Twitter» - that it is a reinforcement of the series of preventive and precautionary measures that the Abu Dhabi government follows in order to preserve the safety and health of its human resources, because the focus in the “remote work” system is focused on three categories of employees: the first senior Citizens, the second is female employees who declare children, while the last category is employees who suffer from chronic diseases and respiratory symptoms.
While the Abu Dhabi Housing Authority announced the start of activation of the working hours system remotely, for employees as an experience of the business continuity plan during emergencies and crises, and in interaction with global developments regarding the Corona virus.
The Abu Dhabi Retirement Fund also joined the authorities applying to this system, as yesterday, 60% of its main operations were announced through the remote work system, indicating its readiness to implement all of the Fund's operations "remotely" during the coming period.
The Fund pointed out that the implementation of the teleworking system comes within the digital month initiative recently launched by the Abu Dhabi government, to enhance the benefit of customers from the innovative digital services and solutions provided by government agencies in the emirate.
According to the fund, the main operations that are accomplished through the remote work system include registration services for the insured and updating their data, requests for joining the service, a request to pay the retirement pension, the end of service reward, and the transfer of the insured, confirming its continued provision of all its services with the same efficiency and speed across all Its digital channels, online portal and smart application "Abu Dhabi Retirement", which includes 18 services for employers, and 21 services for customers (insured, eligible, and retired).
The Fund indicated that it had started the application of the first phase of the remote work system experience, before the end of 2018 through the adoption of the "smart office" system, which allows the Fund employees to complete the job tasks without the need for daily working hours at the workplace.
He pointed out that the experiment has been applied to a number of different departments in the Fund, where it became possible for the Fund employees to provide all its services remotely, without the need to personally come to the workplace, in addition to the ability of the Contact Center employees to receive business contacts and inquiries of the employers via their personal phones During the official working hours from anywhere, through the smart connection of the Fund’s communication system with their phones through the transfer of calls.
The Fund confirmed that the results of the evaluation of the first experiment showed great success through the numbers and statistics, which indicated a remarkable increase in the number of transactions completed by employees, including responding to customer inquiries.
The General Authority for Pensions and Social Security announced that its employees would be allowed to work remotely for some time, confirming that it had taken this decision proactively, and directed that the returning employees stay in their homes and carry out their business tasks remotely.
While Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation announced the activation of the remote work system for the employees of the Foundation and its subsidiaries in some administrative sectors, as an expression of the level of readiness that guarantees the continuity of its operations, according to the highest international standards applied in this strategic project, which is one of the largest vital projects in the world .
"HR"
The Human Resources Authority in Abu Dhabi issued a circular that includes a set of preventive precautionary measures and measures to preserve public safety and health in the Emirate's government agencies and institutions. The circular included all measures related to remote work, reviewing travel plans abroad to perform official tasks and returnees from abroad, as well as coordination in rotation during working hours, postponing the holding of all workshops, forums, and activities until further notice, and also included the possibility of applying the remote work system to some employees Government agencies, in addition to the category of senior citizens, and similar employees who are not citizens, in addition to female employees who announce children, and employees who suffer from chronic diseases (heart disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and diseases that cause immunodeficiency, and others, provided they submit Medical), provided that the work system is evaluated remotely to assess the readiness and flexibility of government agencies in the face of risks and emergency events.
Digital month
The "digital month" launched by the Abu Dhabi government highlights the benefits that citizens and residents who rely more on digital services can receive instead of visiting government departments and agencies on the ground to accomplish the services and transactions they need, especially as government agencies provide more than 1,000 A government service distributed across different digital channels, which reflects more than eight million transactions that were digitally accomplished during the past year, and the process of digital transformation is an added value at various levels, providing more than 300 thousand working days for government employees, in addition to more 16 million visit to the dealers.
The initiative - bearing the slogan "Earn your time" - aims to emphasize the role that digital solutions and services play in providing more time for community members and allowing them to focus more on activities and positive aspects in their daily lives.