As you are well aware, the World Health Organization has declared COVID19 as a pandemic. Over the last week itself, we have witnessed the severity of impact which has affected lakhs of people world over and the speed with which it spreads through human interaction.

Our government has issued several dictates, lockdowns and advisories over this past week urging every institution to implement “work from home” policy and to take all steps necessary to restrict the number of people present in any workplace to just those that are essential or necessary.

More than just being guided by Governmental mandates, we, as an institution, feel it is critical for us to take care of our community consisting of our members, clients, employees, staff, vendors, shareholders and the society we live in. We have always and will continue to do our best to ensure the safety and security of our community at any cost. It is with this motivation and spirit that we have decided to curtail our operations severely, in three aspects.

First, we will reduce the number of operational hubs until April 15 at a minimum

Second, we will not offer all the features and services we normally offer at the open hubs.

Third, we make greater efforts to serve certain “essential” services to society than other customers

It is our moral, civic and legal duty to take all reasonable measures to provide our customers and staff with the safest possible working environment while still being socially responsible.

That means we want to minimize risk that is not necessary. That is, reduce the number of scenarios where transmission of the virus is even possible This means reducing the number of people circulating and contacting other people who can become transmission vectors.

We understand these are drastic measures and are disruptive to our customers and partners who work with us. We are proactively helping all companies/ members (essential and non-essential) to develop the capability to work from home. Right now, we believe the best of all worlds is zero people in our hubs and everyone is still able to run their businesses from home.

Stay Safe, stay healthy and watch this space for more updates.

Team 91springboard.