(Last Update: 2020-09-24)
To being with, everyone in the world is suffering the COVID-19 crisis. The management team of Smart Data Institute Limited (SDi) is supporting our employees, customers and the society with different actions with the help of our small but energetic team together.
- What we are doing for employees
- We are keeping our staff benefits unchanged even facing a significant impact of new business including annual bonus and original salary package.
- We are offering personal protection stuff like masks, antibacterial hand sanitizer.
- We are trying to minimize our staff onsite visits to clients and giving choices for staff work-from-home
- We are investing virtual team engagement tools for staff communication.
- We enhanced cleaning at our computer lab and office.
- What we are doing for clients
- We enhanced our remote support tools with different choices for clients including Microsoft Teams, WebEx, Zoho Meetings and Zoom
- We are providing onsite support for clients if being requested. (NOTE: however, we do provide necessary personal protection gear for our staff before going onsite)
- We enhanced cleaning at our computer lab and office.
- We arrange virtual meetings and onsite visits.
- We provide and share our computer lab resources with clients for development and testing.
- What we are doing for communities
- We are donating hundreds of masks to the root-grass.
- We are donating our old computers to children studying at home remotely.
Updates
Sep 2020 – work on the developments on new courses to help the improvements on the Data Science standard for the greater China area.
Aug 2020 – provide non-office hour support for a government department as a critical environment during the peak of COVID-19 new cases.
Jul 2020 – start the building of an online processional training portal together with our sister companies
Jun 2020 – purchase Zoho Meetings for the concerns of security in Zoom
May 2020 – donate computers to poor family for their kids to study at home.
Apr 2020 – donate masks to a charity organization for sharing with root-grass people in Shamshuipo
Mar 2020 – deliver staff annual bonus
Feb 2020 – release technical support portal v2.0 (https://raise2support.com)
Feb 2020 – allow staff starting WFH