


With uncertainty as to how long the current stay at home plan will remain in place and how long it will be until work life returns to what it was prior to the COVID-19 outbreak is uncertain. But, in the big picture, we're doing very well – exceptionally well – and some of the problems we've come up against have been overcome with a tremendous amount of effort."įomby noted one employee who stayed up all night when the decision was made to have as many employees as possible work remotely to enable 180 laptops at Health & Human Services to be able to receive voicemails from their work phone to get forwarded to their email, as well converting work computers to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to connect them from an off-site location, allowing the Public Health hotline to be able to receive text messages and connecting employees into a conference call system so they can virtually attend county board and committee meetings. We've been (doing) a lot of really good work, but there's also a lot of spit, grit and duct tape just to hold it all together.

It's something we really couldn't prepare for. This is something none of us anticipated. "We've had little problems here and there – there are always hiccups," Fomby said.
