Messages from executives: How are regional offices reopening amid Covid-19 concerns?

Messages from executives: How are regional offices reopening amid Covid-19 concerns?

Gulf Business

Tuesday 07 July 2020

Regional businesses return back to offices

While the Covid-19 pandemic has far from subsided, governments globally and regionally have started lifting lockdowns and eased restrictions to help economies begin the process of recovery. How have corporate entities welcomed back their workforce?

Saif Humaid Al FalasiGroup CEO, ENOC

Following Dubai government directives, ENOC Group developed a detailed plan for returning to work. A staggered work plan was put in place to manage employees returning to work from our headquarters. This started with allowing 50 per cent of the workforce to return to work from our offices on May 31. This was followed by a decision to have 100 per cent of our workforce return to work from our offices effective June 14. Special exemptions have been allowed for mothers, pregnant women, people of determination, people with chronic diseases and immune deficiencies, and elderly workers, allowing them to continue working from home.

A dedicated cross-functional task force, whose main objective is to identify the various preventative measures during and post the sterilisation period, has also been formed since the pandemic broke out.

Covid-19 has offered ENOC an opportunity to revisit work patterns. We believe employees that do not require a physical presence in the office can work remotely in the future, which in turn will benefit employees, enhance productivity, and thereby improve and streamline business operations.

ENOC