How did you manage a quick ramp up post pandemic?

Hi @Sophie. Well honestly, this pandemic has indeed created a havoc to all the industries. In our sector, we had primairly thought of letting our employees come to work on alternative days and work for 10 hours a day to streamline the productivity. But we could see this was not enough. Some permanent employees had to be laid off. I know our industries are different but it is an undeniably common fact that people badly needed jobs to survive and the sudden unemployment was killing them all. We received ample orders from our clients across the world, but we were unable to meet the same due to lack of employee shortages.  In such case, hiring employees interested to work only as freelancers was the only way to deal with the situation. The senior and middle management teams had communicated and held meetings frequently to conduct remote training programs for the newly employed. Continuous Zoom meets were organized and as seniors, we had to divide our work and plan for making presentations for employee training, developing advertising and promotional contents as well as managing the team productivity. 

Regards

Christina