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What measures did you imple\u00adment and since when?<\/h4>\n
JS: The Chinese New Year holi\u00addays had been extended by another 1 week. We orig\u00adi\u00adnally planned to go back to work on Feb 1. However due to the devel\u00adop\u00adments over in China the govern\u00adment had decided to extend the public holi\u00addays until Feb 9, hence we should resume work starting Monday, Feb 10. However due to the severe devel\u00adop\u00adments the govern\u00adment encour\u00adaged to imple\u00adment different work schemes such as work from home, stag\u00adgered work in office (less staff at the same time in office), etc. Uhlmann China has imple\u00admented \u201chome office\u201d scheme since then and the Manage\u00adment Team is reviewing the work plan for stag\u00adgered work in office (who is in office and when) on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n
Besides we are using calls, email, WeChat, MS-Teams (which is an excel\u00adlent tool to commu\u00adni\u00adcate and to share docu\u00adments )to stay in touch with each other and with our customers. The customers also slowly start oper\u00ada\u00adtions after extended holi\u00addays and a 14 days self-quar\u00adan\u00adtine for their staff who trav\u00adelled within China during Chinese New Year and now returning to their work places. On a personal level UCN has provided hand sani\u00adtizer in our office and even provided suffi\u00adcient medial masks for all our staffs to ensure personal safety.<\/p>\n
What is expe\u00adri\u00adence on working from home, reduced time in office, travel restric\u00adtions, etc.?<\/h4>\n
JS: We only made posi\u00adtive expe\u00adri\u00adence on working from home and we thank the Uhlmann IT in Germany in providing remote access for those staff who usually are working office and who now needs to remotely work from home. Our staff appre\u00adci\u00adates the efforts made by our company in allowing such work model. For those we need to be in office to handle e.g. accounting\/finance, spare parts ship\u00adment, etc. a specific work plan has been arranged by the UCN Manage\u00adment Team so that the personal safety of staff is ensured consid\u00adering the rules & regu\u00adla\u00adtions set by the Office Manage\u00adment where UCN is holding offices in Shanghai and Beijing.<\/p>\n
Travel restric\u00adtions within China\/Overseas remain in place and will be adjusted if needed as per latest advice by local author\u00adi\u00adties. Our local Customer Support Team mean\u00adwhile has success\u00adfully completed installation\/SAT at one of our customers in Shanghai as travel restric\u00adtions for German tech\u00adni\u00adcians are still in place. This clearly shows that our local for local approach is working fine even in chal\u00adlenging times. The remote support of our HQ in Laupheim during this installation\/SAT was great and I thank everyone for their hard work to make this SAT a successful one.<\/p>\n
What is your recom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtion to other colleagues\/staff in our HQ who might need to deal with such new circum\u00adstances (home office, etc.)?<\/h4>\n
JS: Adopt and embrace such new work schemes as they will help everyone to keep safe and keep busi\u00adness ongoing during these chal\u00adlenging times. Make proper use of the commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion tools provided to allow such \u201cremote\u201d work and setup a routine commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion with your team\/staff. This will greatly help until the situ\u00ada\u00adtion will become normal again. Besides such new work schemes might become the future work schemes hence you are able to try it out already now. I am sure you will only make posi\u00adtive expe\u00adri\u00adences while using those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How do our Chinese colleagues work during the COVID 19 pandemic? Jochen Scheil, Managing Director at Uhlmann-Pack\u00adaging Systems in Shanghai, answers four ques\u00adtions. [\u2026]<\/p>\n