Unless you were the rare company architected in a way that the
shelter-in-place, stay-at-home and proclamations shutting down the
premises of "non-essential" businesses didn't affect
you, you likely had to immediately re-think how you would operate
and implement a plan.
In some cases, dozens or hundreds of laptop computers had to be
acquired overnight for suddenly homebound workers. Significant
upgrades in internet bandwidth and telecommunications hardware to
accommodate remote access by hundreds or thousands of employees may
require quick-start-up relationships with new vendors able to
support the company's needs. Given a choice between not
operating or cutting corners on protocols for checking both
internal and vendor security, it's understandable that
maintaining operations with remote workers was defined by
management as their most basic responsibility.
