Jeff Shell To NBCUniversal Staff: Stay Home! Read His Company-Wide Memo
Hello Everybody,
This isn’t the primary company-wide observe I envisioned sending to you. Throughout my first three months on this job, I’ve been amazed by the breadth of this firm’s content material and experience, in addition to by the various gifted staff who’re answerable for our success. I had deliberate to achieve out and talk about my ideas and outlook on the enterprise quickly, however at the moment I need to personally deal with the COVID-19 scenario and let you understand how we’re coping with it.
I need to start by assuring you that my prime precedence, and that of our total administration staff, is the well being and security of our staff. NBCUniversal is being guided by an skilled staff of medical and disaster administration consultants who’re in fixed communication with authorities officers. My course to that group is to make sure that we’re doing all the pieces in our energy to provide the most secure attainable working atmosphere and the instruments you have to do your job, handle your life, and preserve you and your loved ones secure. Please use common sense as you make your personal every day choices and please let’s be certain we’re all caring for one another.
Whereas we’re targeted at first on staying wholesome and secure, we additionally stay dedicated to sustaining enterprise operations. To that finish, we have now put in place new insurance policies and procedures that may enable us to proceed to run the enterprise in a accountable method whereas on the similar time serving to to mitigate the unfold of the virus.
Our firm consists of a various set of companies with totally different wants working in several geographies. In consequence, it’s not possible to present uniform steerage throughout the board. For example, staff in theme parks, nationwide and native information productions, movie and leisure TV manufacturing, sports activities, on-air operations and different choose areas is probably not able to do business from home or keep away from journey. We perceive that and you need to proceed to take steerage from your enterprise and HR leaders about how particular insurance policies are being carried out for your enterprise. Most of you, nevertheless, ought to observe the beneath insurance policies till additional discover:
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Work Remotely – The corporate strongly encourages all staff globally to start working remotely if attainable, efficient instantly. By now all teams ought to have examined their work-from-home capabilities and must be ready for this step. Please converse to your supervisor about particular preparations and click on here for distant entry suggestions. For many who can not work remotely, our places of work will stay open and we are going to proceed to scrub and disinfect work areas and have medical workers on the premises. When you’ve got a job that requires you to be current within the workplace and you’re involved, please contact your HR supervisor.
Keep away from Giant Gatherings – Staff ought to restrict giant gatherings. Please don’t have in-person conferences until it’s completely crucial, and in that case restrict the variety of individuals as a lot as attainable. Please keep away from giant gatherings in your private life as effectively. Don’t have outdoors guests come to the workplace.
Stop All Non-Important Enterprise Journey – Except for the areas referenced earlier within the observe, all non-essential enterprise journey each home and worldwide ought to stop. Important journey outdoors these teams should now be authorised by Adam Miller, Anand Kini or Kim Harris previous to reserving.
Be Sensible About Private Journey – Please don’t go to international locations and areas the place COVID-19 has a big presence. Anybody who does select to journey outdoors their residence nation should report that data to their HR chief, and for these nonetheless reporting to work, we are going to assess whether or not a 14-day residence quarantine is important upon your return.
Taking these steps is the easiest way to maintain us all secure and wholesome and I respect your help.
I additionally need to say thanks in your dedication throughout this troublesome time. I acknowledge that there are different important results of COVID-19, similar to faculty closures or caring for a relative which will have an effect in your every day life, and I need to personally decide to you that we’ll be understanding, versatile and supportive and in each occasion we are going to try to do the proper factor.
Lastly, please know that our firm is powerful and resilient. This example will go and NBCUniversal and Comcast will proceed to develop and excel. We couldn’t be higher positioned strategically and financially. We’ve got the strongest steadiness sheet within the media business, and we’re lucky to be in lots of companies which are constructed to face up to crises like this one and proceed to flourish.
Thanks in your cooperation. We’ll preserve you up to date, and I sit up for sharing broader views on the enterprise at some point.
