Work from home, securities firm orders 50 remisiers
By Gabriel Chen
CIMB-GK Securities has ordered 50 of its remisiers in Singapore to work from home for a week after a staff member working in the same room contracted the H1N1 flu virus.
The remisier, who was admitted to hospital yesterday, caught the virus from his son, who was infected at The Butter Factory at One Fullerton, said CIMB-GK Securities chief executive Carol Fong. The popular nightclub, which has been the source of infection in 21 H1N1 cases, has closed its doors for a week.
‘He was very responsible,’ Ms Fong said. ‘When his son was confirmed (with H1N1) on Tuesday, he didn’t come to work on that day.’
She said the firm’s operations are continuing normally, and that clients have been informed.
Remisiers working from home will be able to take orders from clients. Alternatively, clients can call the firm’s hotline where they will be connected to one of about 250 remisiers left working in the office who will help with the orders.
‘We had to do the morally right thing to ensure that the rest of them are not affected as well,’ Ms Fong explained.
‘We expect if there are no other cases by next Monday evening, they’ll come back to work on Tuesday. So it’s basically a seven-day quarantine.’
Across Singapore, many firms are bracing themselves for the possibility that the spread of the flu will get worse.
‘On the business continuity front, to ensure minimal disruption of services to customers, we’ll minimise the possibility of contagion by planning for splitting of selected critical business functions, operating from different locations,’ said Mr Sigfried Ching, OCBC Bank’s head of business continuity management.
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