Sunday, April 26, 2020

How HR Should Handle Coronavirus Concerns - The HR CHALLENGES


This has a similarity that the world faced it in the last 2 decades and more with respect to crises / recession.

How IT companies are effected with the Pandemic COVID-19.

"Most of the BUSINESS have gone badly effected with the below"
           1.      Securing Client
           2.      Securing Business
           3.      Securing Finance
           4.      Employee Work From Home ACTIONs
           5.     Hiring
           6.     Performance management Systems
           7.     Evaluating Work
           8.      Ethical Behaviors / Personal traits
           9.      Psychology and Sociology problems
         10.      New Metric System to EVALUATE Performance Management System.

=> How is PANDEMIC dealt????????
                         1. Before Pandemic
                         2. While Pandemic
                         3. After Pandemic

                                                            1. Before Pandemic: 
Ø Do we have a READINESS PROJECT to face such CHALLENGES??
Ø How to deal with the outbreak and ensure smooth functioning of the business by 
     keeping the SYSTEM alive.

2. While Pandemic

Ø Is the company ready with Inventory support required for Work From Home??
    o Laptops / Desktops
    o Secure the Network and Client Intellectual property
    o Software & Report Generating tools
§ Report generation on Day to day tasks
§ Review report on Daily tasks executed

Ø Is Employee having set up ready to START with WORK FROM HOME??
He has a network readily available with the specified bandwidth required for the JOB
Can he isolate himself and execute the work standards?
How can he overcome the Psychosocial problems sitting at home??
MIS Reporting 

Ø Ethical behavior metrics
         o Create a metrics to define the day to day communication & responses.

Ø Communication CHANNEL:
         o Define the Channels that can be used for communication with all the employees                           which are definitely secured
                             § Slack, TeamViewer, Any desk

Ø Reporting system of the tasks on Time basis.
Tasks Assigned
End of the day report.
Supervisor Evaluation

Ø Performance Evaluation
How is the resource performance?
Delivery & Quality
Reporting & Availability

Ø Financial Management:
This is last but not the least but very important
             Companies have their own ways of dealing with it.
             Try to minimize the cost and make sure finances are not disturbed to safeguard the             companies
             Instead of layoffs, cost cutting, and cost management shall help save the jobs


                                                           3. After Pandemic

Ø How do we maintain Employee Distancing?
   Even after Pandemic there should be some kind of measures that needs to be
    taken care off by companies in order to suppress the out break 
completly
Project Wise create WORK PLAN
üResources work from Office
üResources Work from home
üMake sure Group of employees are being rotated with Work from Home so that there is a distancing yet maintained.

ØSafety measures Besides maintaining Distancing...
We should maintain the standards for killing the out break so that that is may not 
      take a rebirth into the system.
Keep educating resource by given regular instruction like Circulars, Notices, Demos 
o  This is not only at Office also at Home how to keep ourselves SAFE

ØAnalyze the changes that they are going to face?
You see a sudden change in the day to day life of employees as they are back to 
     work.
Keep them motivated with sudden changes they have started.
Schedule meetings regularly to catch up the changes.

ØHow to hold & Implement Performance Management System?
Employees shall have the same expectations towards the PMS after the Pandemic.
o  It is required to keep employees updated about the business Impact that has 
     occurred
Management please take time to sit with employees so that they are not disturbed 
     because of the financial disturbances happening in terms of pay cut etc.





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