The new way of working: a well-chosen combination of online and on-site

ultimately, despite the wait-and-see policy at the beginning of the pandemic, it has been constantly busy at Spectades during this time of Corona as well. On-going projects required a great deal of time and new projects had to be started under these unusual circumstances. “Initially there was some delay, but for on-going and new contracts it was always full speed ahead”, according to Project Manager Anil Laldjie. In addition we experienced that the pressure on technology continuously increased: it had to be by Internet, and digital communication programmes had to be available and had to perform properly.

For the foreseeable future this will lead to Spectades making the right choices between working online and on-site. Jan Doorduin: “Where direct interaction works better we will again meet physically, as far as health and government permit. Furthermore when new projects are involved and in consideration of our staff’s constantly high workload, there is now the need to pursue the already long scheduled expansion plans as well. As we had actually already planned before the outbreak of Corona, we recently took on three new people, with discussions underway with another two candidates. In short: intense work with more capacity online as well as at the client’s, and therefore also greater scope for the people on the permanent team.”