The quickly evolving state of affairs additionally prompted StradVision to drag again from buyer contact. In February, a product crew was supposed to go to with a possible new buyer in Japan to show its product. However earlier than its engineers left from South Korea, information broke of an outbreak in Tokyo. The demonstration was postponed.

StradVision then escalated its security plan and commenced making ready all staff globally to work remotely. It ordered workers to make use of the Zoom, Slack and Skype Web communication platforms to permit staff to telecommunicate. By the primary week of March, a compulsory work-from-home order was in place, Lee mentioned.

However a fourth of its staff couldn't instantly telecommute. These staffers had been required to hunt particular person approval to enter the workplace.

By mid-March, 90 % of the workers was working from house. StradVision administration continued to fret in regards to the 10 % who weren't but doing so. For them, the corporate started subsidizing taxi service to the...