General Manager of Ford Asked the White-Collar Employees to Work Remotely Starting Monday

The Chief Executive of the Ford company, who is the General Manager, has asked all the white-collar employees of its company to resume work from the remote locations from the starting Monday to avoid any crises in the business operations. Previously the ford companies have already suffered crises that the chief doesn’t want to get repeated. In this situation, the working hours would be flexible for the white-collar employees of the company, but regular reporting of the work for the remote locations would be mandatory.

Remote Working of Ford’s White-Collar Employees
According to the statement of the General Manager Mary Barra of the topmost automaker company in the world, the employees, including the contract workers, need to work remotely for the company to avoid any crisis. This statement is also being reported by the chief of General Motors Co, one of U.S automakers. According to them, most of the white-collar workforce should be working remotely from the first day of the week, which is Monday. This measure is taken by the companies to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus.
According to the reports of a spokeswoman, the fears over the spread of the deadly Coronavirus had laid the hourly employees of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that is an Italian-American automaker, its NV’s minivan assembly plant which is at Windsor in Ontario to stop the working for a specified period. Therefore the workers of FCA had been made aware and concerned about the possibility of exposure to the deadly virus through secondary contact. Later after a few hours, they were convinced that there was no risk, and thus they return to work on Friday afternoon after around 24 hours.

Shift in the Workplace of Ford’s Employees due to Corona Attack

According to the further statement of the GM of Ford company, it has been a terrible first experience of this type for many of us. It can be considered as a disruption and the circumstances for trying out to avoid this disruption, which is not new to them. She also added that the remote-work policy had been applied globally apart from China, which has these existing protocols in place. All their IT tools and system have been widely stress-tested as it is crucial to leverage them to continue delivering. The CEO of the Ford company has mentioned in a mail to the employees that the company will shift most of its global white-collar employees outside China to work remotely, where the recovery has already begun.

In the current scenario, it can be concluded that the issue of Coronavirus has taken towards a different dimension and it is highly required to be proactive for keeping our people safe along with helping to put a limit on the spread of the virus in the communities where most of the people work and resides. The Fiat Automaker NV is also enhancing its deployment of remote work for its white-collar employees at the safe places, which is beyond the most affected countries of China, Japan, South Korea, and Italy.