Decisions to allow for teleworking differ among companies, but generally, the following determinants seem to increase the probability of teleworking: As with any technological and organizational change, the full implementation of teleworking arrangements could take decades as it becomes more of an accepted norm rather than a privilege or oddity.
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This week, the building instituted large-scale teleworking and barred most visitors.
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Teleworking and streaming help a lot but infrastructures might be in strain.
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Teleworking and streaming help a lot but infrastructures might be in strain.
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Even teleworking for a few days a week really opens things up.
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Earlier this month the parliament moved the majority of its staff to teleworking.
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One of her two purchases was of a technology company that provides teleworking software.
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Esper said that Pentagon employees would be teleworking for "weeks, for sure," and "maybe months," after announcing on Monday that the Pentagon was increasing the number of staff that would be teleworking, and limiting the number of access points into the building.
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"This may entail more than half of your Washington staff teleworking from home," Pelosi wrote.
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Teleworking is extremely common in the tech field, but higher education hasn't quite caught on yet.
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Teleworking is one thing, but the fact remains that lawmakers need to be present to vote.
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Loeffler bought between $100,000 and $250,000 of shares in Citrix, a technology company that offers teleworking software.
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Esper also raised the health protection status for all defense installations worldwide, limiting access and encouraging teleworking.
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Teleworking. That's what Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs Dan Bartlett told Yahoo Finance on Thursday.
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Teleworking removes the two most significant barriers to employment of people with disabilities: commuting and an accessible workplace.
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Blue-collar and low-pay service workers, as one might expect, have experienced the lowest share of teleworking.
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But in recent years, a new factor has moved the teleworking trend into the fast lane: labor shortages.
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One House staffer said the department doesn't know how many employees are currently teleworking, though it estimates 75,000.
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By expanding broadband infrastructure and encouraging teleworking, we can tap into the nation's talent from coast to coast.
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One of the few stocks Loeffler bought was in the technology company Citrix Systems, which makes teleworking software.
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NASA centers and headquarters regularly perform telework drills to test our capabilities, resources, and preparedness for large-scale teleworking.
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Mulvaney is "teleworking" from his home while the test results are pending, a White House official told NBC News.
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Teleworking could be especially beneficial for federal employees like those at SSA, some of whom interact frequently with the elderly.
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The conversations included a chat about the internal infrastructure that exists to handle teleworking, a person familiar told CNN, with the chief administrative officer saying that they can support 10,000 staff teleworking if need be, and that they also have the capability to rush laptop orders and ensure they are following cyber security measures.
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Many parts of the Capitol have ceased regular operations: Offices are largely teleworking, visitor access is restricted, and tours are canceled.
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Teleworking is a challenge for many defense and intelligence officials, since many have to handle secret material or work on secure networks.
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He said he would be teleworking from home and staying in contact with federal, state and local officials to combat the pandemic.
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While some companies have instituted teleworking policies to try to prevent outbreaks, Japan has long resisted allowing people to work from home.
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Most of its 4,350 staff work at the Washington, D.C. headquarters, and are currently teleworking, according to a notice on the agencys website.
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As employers become savvier in managing teleworkers, we also expect companies to make better decisions regarding where teleworking works and where it does not.
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And while chiefs of staff have discussed offering teleworking options to staffers during the recess next week, most are watching leadership for their cues.
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And the Department of Agriculture told employees who worked in close proximity to an employee who tested positive Sunday that they should begin teleworking immediately.
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Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Bill Cassidy, and Sherrod Brown are among those who have temporarily closed their DC offices, with staffers teleworking during this time.
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While the Trump campaign and its allies at the Republican National Committee are giving employees the option of teleworking, the Biden campaign has gone further.
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And one new acquisition in Loeffler's portfolio raised eyebrows: stock in a teleworking company called Citrix, according to the Daily Beast, which broke that story.
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There are other, more creative options too, including job-sharing arrangements allowing stable workforce participation with lower hourly commitments, expanded teleworking arrangements, or flexible working hours.
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The building has seen a drop in the number of people coming into work since measures to combat the outbreak started, with many of them teleworking.
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Previously the EU's executive body had been implementing limited teleworking for high risk employees such as those returning from Italy for 14 days after their return.
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"The professionals who carry out their activity in the floor where this professional works will continue their work through teleworking," the bank said in a statement.
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The building has seen a drop in the number of people coming into work since measures to combat the outbreak started, with many of them teleworking.
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Employee well-being is of major importance to Engie, with the company having incorporated several practices to accommodate workers, including teleworking, in-service training, and reverse mentoring.
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Losing the option of flexible work schedules, teleworking, and family-friendly benefits would disproportionately hurt working mothers, who tend to place a higher value on those factors.
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The state of teleworking at SSA Federal agencies that cut their telework policies recently have, as of Wednesday, not reversed course amid the rising cases of coronavirus.
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On Wednesday, Esper raised the health protection status for all defense installations worldwide in response to the outbreak, limiting access and encouraging teleworking across the defense department.
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The broadband industry has been under enormous pressure to take action to ensure all Americans maintain access to the internet as teleworking becomes more important than ever.
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The broadband industry has been under enormous pressure to take action to ensure all Americans maintain access to the internet as teleworking becomes more important than ever.
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In a "dear colleague" letter on Sunday, Pelosi encouraged Capitol Hill employees to promote social distancing, including teleworking from home during the weeklong in-district work period.
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The ad giant has ordered employees to work from home, part of a broader shift to teleworking by corporate Japan to try and halt the spreading virus.
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Structure time at home With children out of school and many parents and guardians trying to navigate teleworking situations, there's bound to be moments of stress and upheaval.
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The aim is showing that even if teleworking and partial shutdowns occur, it shows that everything is still getting done, the official said, and a sense of normalcy.
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The House is preparing to allow staff to telework as concerns grow over the global coronavirus outbreak, and Senate staffers also received an email last week about teleworking.
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A shift to teleworking played a big role: Video and voice-over-Internet conferencing is up 212 percent while VPN traffic is up 40 percent, the company reported.
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If guardians are busy balancing teleworking with entertaining kids who are home from school, pets may fall by the wayside or experience anxiety over their altered living conditions.
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Federal agencies in the Washington area opened three hours late Tuesday; employees had the option of taking unscheduled leave or teleworking, according to the US Office of Personnel Management.
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The decision to have additional people work from home at the largest agency in the government is a sign that the federal government is moving toward more expansive teleworking.
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In the email sent to European Parliament staff yesterday its administrative body gives authorization for all staff with "known pre-existing illnesses to stay home and apply for teleworking".
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Furthermore, companies that use private networks and systems may not have the IT bandwidth or security measures to suddenly support large numbers of teleworking employees handling potentially sensitive data.
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Many Capitol Hill offices have already implemented teleworking strategies for aides, and some lawmakers have either self-quarantined or gotten tested for coronavirus after brushes with people who later tested positive.
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In an email sent today European Parliament staff have been instructed that teleworking will be introduced on March 16 — for "all colleagues whose physical presences in Parliament is not absolutely indispensable".
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"On the advice of the Attending Physician, the senator has closed her Washington, D.C. office this week for deep cleaning and staff will be teleworking," Cantwell's office said in a statement.
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These activities run across the entire internet, as Americans increasingly share their information and rely on various digital platforms for shopping, education, transportation, streaming media, telemedicine, teleworking, social interaction and social media.
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"We have advanced significantly in our teleworking ability and our ability to work remotely — and that's a good thing and that prepares the government for something like this," said the ex-OPM official.
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From Walmart and Costco providing groceries and Amazon enhancing its distribution centers to deliver medical supplies to Skype and Zoom's wide-ranging teleworking options, Americans' favorite brands are stepping up for the greater good.
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BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) - European Union Industry Chief Thierry Breton on Wednesday called on streaming platforms to take measures to prevent internet congestion caused by thousands of people teleworking due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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That means presence in the office will be limited to 1½ days a week," the email continues, adding: "Later on teleworking could be increased to 100% of working time dependent on the further developments.
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Spaces in DSCA where the individual worked have been cleaned in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance when he tested positive, and the person's co-workers have been teleworking, the statement said.
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Across the European Union — a region with around 445M citizens — it's likely many millions of office workers will switch to teleworking, as countries impose quarantine measures and instruct people to work from home wherever possible.
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While she warned of the need to prepare for a "significant disruption of our lives," Dr. Messonnier used words like teleworking and teleschooling to describe what might have to happen in the worst-case scenario.
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In addition, they speculate that with new technology and the potential for teleworking, it is possible for some people to take jobs even though they have medical conditions that would have precluded work in the past.
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Mulvaney "had contact with someone whose test results are pending, so out of an abundance of caution due to his proximity to the president, he's teleworking pending those results," the White House official told NBC News.
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Adam Schiff, a Californian and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced on March 225 that he would be "taking additional distancing precautions, including postponing meetings and teleworking" after learning that a former staffer tested positive.
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Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) sold off more than $1 million in stocks in the days and weeks following a private coronavirus meeting — then bought shares in a company that offers teleworking software, according to the Daily Beast.
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The latest statement noted that spaces in DSCA where the individual worked have been cleaned in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance when he tested positive, and the person's co-workers have been teleworking.
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While preparations are being made for teleworking and some staff could move off-site if the situation becomes severe, a small number of critical staff could be "locked down" to perform crucial functions in the Pentagon's command center.
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The US Navy's computer network, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), is experiencing an "increase in users who are teleworking/social distancing," for both users inside the contiguous states and overseas, Navy spokesman Joe Gradisher said to USNI.
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The email also reiterates guidance that staff who feel ill or unwell should self isolate at home — urging those who may have some flu-like symptoms but do not feel too unwell to work to "ask for teleworking".
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The designation of Health Protection Condition (HPCON) Charlie will increase the number of employees teleworking, cancel large-scale meetings and require temperatures to be taken at entrances to some buildings on military installations, Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah told reporters.
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Goldman announced 10 days ago that he was leaving the office, and while it is believed that he contracted COVID-19 after his departure, Schiff said he is teleworking and postponing meetings as a precaution (The Wall Street Journal).
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Both House and Senate offices have been told to brush off their teleworking plans and hand-sanitizer machines have popped up around the building, with staff seen taking at least three into the bowels of the Senate on Tuesday.
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The cuts have reduced, or in some cases eliminated, employees' abilities to work from home despite teleworking being a key request of their labor unions and a recommendation from other government officials to protect the federal workforce from the outbreak.
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While federal employees on the border may not have the option of teleworking, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told lawmakers Wednesday afternoon that Transportation Safety Administration and Customs and Border Protection officers have the materials to protect themselves from coronavirus.
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Content delivery networks operated by Cloudflare and Akamai, which help carry internet content from distant servers to your device, could face greater loads — as well as collaboration tools produced by Google and Cisco (CSCO), which are increasingly being used for teleworking.
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"Daly-Sims definitely did not telework every night, as he would have had to approve that," the report says, citing what McKenna told the IG. Daly-Sims disputes that, saying McKenna had told his management team that teleworking was automatically approved.
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According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, studies have shown that early implementation of interventions such as teleworking or remote-meeting options in workplaces can reduce the community spread and impact of infectious pathogens like the novel coronavirus.
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BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Thursday told telecoms providers not to discriminate against individual content providers despite increased internet traffic on their networks caused by thousands of house-bound Europeans teleworking or video streaming due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Washington (CNN)The dramatic expansion of teleworking by US schools, businesses and government agencies in response to the coronavirus is raising fresh questions about the capacity and security of the tools many Americans use to connect to vital workplace systems and data.
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In some regions, VA has conducted stress tests on its teleworking networks in recent days in order to ensure these systems can endure a significant increase in volume should employees have to work remotely, according to a regional VA official and emails reviewed by CNN.
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Of the 550 respondents between March 12 and March 16, 85% said they were actively encouraging teleworking, at least in areas with a high number of coronavirus cases, and two-thirds said the shift involved employees who do not typically work remotely, Seyfarth said.
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We are not just dealing with germs that are too small to see; we are also dealing with structural hurdles that are too huge to see, in the way that right now, teleworking from my front porch in Los Angeles, I cannot see California.
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"We have teleworking capabilities in place as part of our normal operations and, like many other companies, we are encouraging all employees who are able to work from home to do so," the regional Fed bank said in a statement to Reuters on Wednesday.
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Washington, DC (CNN)The federal government is pushing to ramp up teleworking for its workers amid growing frustration from employees across a number of agencies who say the government is not being aggressive enough to protect them and limit the possibility of infection from the novel coronavirus.
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On Thursday night, 12 members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee urged some of the country's top communications providers to extend their services to people without access to the internet, who are likely to find themselves left behind and suffer severe consequences amid the teleworking frenzy.
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But while more technologies like Zoom and Slack allow employees to be productive at home, not all companies have adopted these technologies, can equip their employees with the computer equipment necessary to work from home, or know how to effectively integrate teleworking technology into their workflow.
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The vast majority of companies are urging employees nationwide to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak, and most are scrambling to set up teleworking arrangements for jobs that normally do not require them, labor and employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw found in a survey released on Thursday.
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Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, sold stocks on January 24, the same day that she and other lawmakers on the Senate Health Committee received a briefing on the likely impact of the disease from top administration officials, and then bought up stock in a company that sells teleworking software.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyGOP embraces big stimulus after years of decrying it GOP divided on next steps for massive stimulus package Cash assistance for Americans gains steam as coronavirus roils economy MORE (R-Utah) also told reporters that he will ask his staff to begin teleworking. Sen.
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It comes as workers at multiple agencies tell CNN that the federal government appears to lack direction on how federal offices should be responding to coronavirus, lagging behind private companies, who have been more proactive about putting teleworking plans in place to limit the potential for the virus to spread.
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Those announcements came on the heels of steps that have already altered the everyday life of Americans: Sports seasons have been suspended, schools have closed and gone online, employees have begun teleworking, cruises have been canceled, theme parks and museums have been shuttered, and states and cities have banned large crowds.
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Loeffler did make two purchases though: One "was stock worth between $100,000 and $250,000 in Citrix, a technology company that offers teleworking software and which has seen a small bump in its stock price since Loeffler bought in as a result of coronavirus-induced market turmoil," the Daily Beast reports.
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California, Oregon, and Massachusetts are three states that have already designed long-term plans that reduce pollution using tools such as public charging stations for electric cars, carpooling and teleworking programs, better urban design to reduce travel distances, smarter signaling to smooth traffic flow, and infrastructure that encourages biking, walking, and public transit.
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"If we get a major outbreak of this coronavirus in this country, that would mean perhaps closing schools temporarily, getting people to do more teleworking, canceling events where there is a lot of crowds in confined places," said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in an interview this week with NBC News.
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"We are anticipating that, as kids have more unstructured time at home in the coming weeks and months, and parents are focused on everything from watching their children to teleworking to constantly sanitizing, childhood injuries are likely to go up," said Torine Creppy, president of Safe Kids Worldwide, a nonprofit that helps families and communities keep kids safe from preventable injuries.
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AND, HAS INTRODUCED TELEWORKING FOR REST OF THE STAFF OUTSIDE GENERAL DIRECTORATE * COMPANY'S EXPOSURE TO CHINESE MARKET HAS NOT, TO DATE, HAD SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES ON BUSINESS AND OUR CHINESE CLIENTS HONOUR THEIR COMMITMENTS * ON CORONAVIRUS: HAS ASKED TO BENEFIT FROM ECONOMIC SUPPORT MEASURES IMPLEMENTED BY GOVERNMENT * THE 2020 RESULTS SHOULD SHOW LITTLE IMPACT IN TERMS OF REVENUE Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom)
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