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The “Segodnya” website gathered opinions of experts in economics, political science, culture and IT to discover their predictions of the consequences the quarantine will have for these industries in Ukraine and to get practical advice on how to survive this period as painlessly as possible.
The publication invited Igor Gorodetskiy, Deputy Production Director at the State-Owned Enterprise “INFOTECH” to share his expert opinion. He believes that the quarantine is unlikely to cause any significant changes to the IT directly since the process of product development does not require the use of unique or expensive assets. Almost everyone employed in this field has the material and financial means to equip their workplace at home.
Nevertheless, small and medium-size businesses may feel the effects of the quarantine on their activities, primarily, due to the problems of organizing the remote work of their back offices. The reason for such issues is that enterprises lack the software and the hardware capable to fully automate the interaction among all the participants of a significant business process.
Analyzing possible ways out of the situation for those who found themselves at risk, Igor Gorodetskiy made the following conclusions:
“Since the global medicine forecasts a secondary biological threat this autumn, I believe businesses will try to account for the unfortunate experience and will focus their efforts on enabling every employee to work equally efficiently both from home and at the office. These employees would have to be able to complete their work using a personal computer. There could be two main directions this situation may develop: a transition to cloud technologies or development of the local infrastructure. Such developments would mean that the market will increase the demand for a variety of cloud services – from information storage services to the provision of software services for tasks, financial, and material resources management. Those who do not trust “clouds” would have to spend more for additional network and server equipment, as well as for the software to automate the process of absolutely paperless document management, performance control (time management), process monitoring and support for remote users. Hence another assumption: system administrators may become more in demand on the labour market.”