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Remote logins soar as Noro virus suffers work their quarantine at home
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11/01/2008
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With more than 100,000 people a week catching the Noro sickness virus, Cambridge-based Signify, the secure authentication service provider, has reported up to 18% more remote logins to corporate systems over the past three days.
Since GPs are recommending that Noro virus sufferers should remain at home for 48 hours after their symptoms have gone, employees are working from home while they are in quarantine.
“The Noro virus has already lost millions of man hours for UK plc, but the impact on companies that have planned ahead for this type of event will be minimised,” says John Stewart, Signify marketing director. “We have seen a surge in user login activity during the first few days of this week, compared to equivalent periods in previous years.”
However, he indicates that the Noro virus is just the latest problem. Every three to six months, he says, there’s a significant national or regional issue that seriously effects a large number of people’s ability to get to work. He includes floods, blizzards, train and tube strikes, terrorist threats and bomb scares, foot and mouth and avian flu.
His advice: “Employers that make provisions to allow their staff to work flexibly away from the office when and emergency strikes are reaping the benefits. Most organisations provide secure remote access for a few senior staff and ‘road-warriors’, but the ability to give everyone short term secure remote access to email, files and applications really minimises the stresses and business losses created by these short term emergencies.”
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