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April 2020 #12249 Page #17
Responding to Our Changing World Wendy Boyd Sales and Marketing Manager Spida Machinery
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orona Virus or Covid-19 has undoubtedly turned the world in which we live, work, socialize, learn, and play upside down. As I write this in the last week of March, we are starting a 4-week shutdown of our manufacturing facility in New Zealand and a 2-week shutdown period for both Indianapolis and Australia. Management are doing all they can to recognize and prepare staff and customers for all the knock-on effects of this shutdown – annual leave with or without pay, lay-offs, redundancies, the list goes on. So, how do we manage the doom and gloom while staying focused on the subject at hand – “Life under crazy circumstances for a machinery manufacturer!” For us over here in New Zealand, our Prime Minister has “gone hard and gone early,” the catch phrase of the minute! Love it or hate it, we have to respect that a decision has been made and run with it we shall. 28 days isolation – “please don’t leave the house,” nothing but essential industry is to operate, also no gatherings of more than 5 people (people you are housed with only), please stand 2 metres apart and so on… Do this for the next 14 to 28 days and we believe we’ve got this devil licked! Don’t comply with the order and isolation will go on for longer, the consequences all the more dire to business and New Zealand health and well-being in general, plus a swift and harsh penalty for those who disobey, i.e., a cold hard cell somewhere! There are obviously questions in everyone’s mind, how long will this go on, should we stockpile groceries, can we live through this? For most of us, there may be hardships of a degree we have never experienced. But we can liken this to the Depression or World Wars I and II, and we should consult all who remember and lived through those for just how to do so with grace, kindness, dignity, and a sense of purpose. We will survive, we will rally, we should be kind, and we will support those who need it, our vulnerable, our elderly, our less fortunate. And, at the same time, we will continue to work at our businesses and prepare them for the ongoing challenges. So, what else are we doing at Spida Machinery?
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