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Adnoc and Microsoft on the shift to remote working
23 minutes Posted May 20, 2020 at 1:55 am.
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With the public health crisis has come huge shifts in how we live, work and interact. Some form of remote working is likely to become a fixture for many companies even as we take tentative steps towards easing restrictions.   

Co-hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner are joined by Ali Al Sayegh, vice president of internal communications & employee engagement at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) to talk about the massive shift and its affect on productivity and employee morale at one of the UAE’s biggest employers.

To tackle the implications for technology - the enabler of our WFH migration - Naim Yazbeck, a director for Microsoft UAE, also joins the conversation.

In this episode:
WFH (0m 39s)
ADNOC and Microsoft on how the workplace has evolved (2m 21s)
Headlines (22m 40s)

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