Employees say working from home has increased their expenses: poll
Work-from-home arrangements have led to an increase in their expenses, according to the majority of respondents to a poll.
Since the third wave of Covid-19 emerged in Thailand in April this year, many organisations have decided to allow their employees to work from home to comply with the government’s policy to contain the spread of the virus.
A Suan Dusit Poll on “Thai behaviour while working from home” was conducted from May 10 to 13 on 1,553 samples nationwide.
Asked about their work experience during the Covid-19 crisis:
42.72 per cent said they were working from home;
34.45 per cent said they were working both from home and office;
22.83 per cent said they were working at the office.
Regarding their experience of working from home (multiple choice):
74.82 per cent said they were safe from Covid-19;
48.60 per cent said they were following the government’s policy;
44.05 per cent said they had more time with their family;
40.53 per cent said they did not have devices and tools for working from home;
39.04 per cent said the atmosphere was different from working at the office.
Asked about the strong points of working from home (multiple choice):
88.33 per cent said it could contain the spread of Covid-19;
70.19 per cent said they could save travel expenses;
60.73 per cent said they could comply with the government’s policy.
Askef about the weak points of working from home (multiple choice):
65.80 per cent said their expenses had increased;
62.08 per cent said devices and tools were not as convenient as in the office ;
45.97 per cent said they faced communication difficulties.
70.33 per cent of respondents said they were able to work well from home.
Asked whether they preferred working from home or office:
37.17 per cent said they liked to work both from home and office;
36.13 per cent said they preferred working at the office;
18.10 per cent said they preferred working from home;
8.60 per cent said they did not care;
Asked if the work from home practice could contain the spread of Covid-19:
Tests at Chula vouch for efficacy of Sinovac, AstraZeneca vaccines
The Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines are both helpful in stimulating peoples immunity against Covid-19, Dr Yong Poovorawan, a senior virologist at Chulalongkorn University, said on Sunday.
Citing a study by Chulalongkorn’s Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology, he explained that people who got the first AstraZeneca jab had a 98.3 per cent immunity against Covid-19 compared to 99.4 per cent in people who had received the second Sinovac jab and 92.4 per cent in people who had been infected with Covid-19.
He also emphasised that people who had been infected with Covid-19 could get re-infected.
“We still do not know what level of immunity can prevent people from infection, but we already know that the severity of the disease would be reduced as long as we have immunity,” he said.
He added that the centre is currently studying people’s immunity against the Covid-19 in the long term.
“As Covid-19 has a short incubation period, it may be necessary to administer more doses to ensure people’s immunity is at the highest level,” he added.
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Chulalongkorn University releases film on how its innovations helped fight pandemic
Chulalongkorn University, which recently launched the “Innovations for Society” campaign, has released a short film to show the different innovations Chula has successfully developed to fight Covid-19.
This campaign is part of the university’s mission to play a leading role in “Creating Knowledge and Innovation to Promote Sustainable Development for Society”.
The film, “Innovations for Society: Innovations against Covid”, uses a storytelling technique from the point of view of an ad agency person who has to dig deep into her creative arsenal to come up with a pitch for her client to approve.
Chula’s target is “to communicate a myriad of innovations against Covid-19 that are full of technical and complicated jargon in a fun and engaging way in three minutes”.
The film director ties all the information into a coherent, cute and funny storyline that is divided into three parts.
First, it starts with “preventive innovations” such as a face-mask spray to protect us from viruses and dust, and CU-RoboCovid – the medical-support robot.
Then, it describes “screening innovations” such as the Chula Covid-19 Strip Test, Chula Express Analysis Mobile Unit (EAMU) and Covid-19 data incubator website that’s developed with other partners.
Finally, the story concludes with “remedy innovations” such as Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, tobacco vaccine, Chula MOOC (massive open online course), and Quick MBA from home that provides cutting-edge professional knowledge to Thai people with novel ways to earn a living during the Covid-19 crisis.
Chula’s innovations against Covid-19 are part of the university’s mission to serve the society with technological breakthroughs as well as to be a driving force for Thai society to continue along the path of robust growth.
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