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July 15, 2002
How Reservists Stay in Touch
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They're getting care packages from co-workers, e-mailing bosses, and keeping electronic diaries for colleagues to read.
Maintaining that connection with the workplace is especially critical in today's business environment, with its layoffs and corporate upheavals, because even a short absence can feel like a career killer, experts tell the newpaper.
About 85,590 National Guard and reservists have been mobilized to active duty.
USA Today gives these examples of how employee-reservists are staying in touch:
- At Reed Smith, a law firm based in Pittsburgh, a care package with T-shirts and snacks is being sent to a fellow lawyer serving in Afghanistan. Contact is also being kept via e-mail. He forwards pictures of himself in uniform, and colleagues have even messaged to ask him where a file is.
- Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which has its U.S. headquarters in Wilmington, Del., is setting up an online reservists network. Now a pilot project, the network has a bulletin board, chat room, an area to upload documents and presentations, an interactive calendar and a link to employee assistance and other sites.
- Crucial Technology in Meridian, Idaho, a provider of memory upgrades for computers and electronics, had a sales manager sent on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia for nine months. He's keeping an electronic journal to be posted monthly on the company intranet for all 450 co-workers to read.
Often, technology is vital. IBM has an e-workplace that allows workers and those on active duty to access services such as instant messages, online meetings, forums and self-service human resources. The system is the foundation of a new practice, Dynamic Workplaces, that IBM created this year for customers.
To read the USA Today article, click here.