At the beginning of March the private and professional lives were almost instantaneously interrupted – an unimaginable event which has triggered a state of emergency for us all, predominantly, however, for our IT department. Within only few hours the whole company had to be adapted to teleworking.

FCP was already well prepared by an “FCP Home-Office Pilot” in a smaller scope. Increasing digitization, continuous implementation of BIM and the demand to work mobile and with international teams has already laid the basis. The scope and the tight time frame were not foreseeable.

Interview with IT on the Conversion to “Teleworking” during the Lockdown in the Corona Crisis:

It is a personal concern of managing director Christian Nüssel to highlight the top performance of the IT department and he says, “We were all surprised by the extent and the speed of the events but our IT department has shown that they are the red thread in virtual solidarity.” He interviewed the department and asked them two questions:

What was the greatest challenge for me?

“To find solutions at short notice which fit our concept regarding strategic and financial considerations also in the long term.”   Georg Fritsch

“Prioritizing in a very volatile situation.”   Max Podany

“The failure of the network switch on the 2nd floor as I knew that this hindered a big number of colleagues in working via remote desktop.”   Thomas Schmid

“To enable persons who have no internet/no computer/no notebook at home to work online.”   Andrew Searle

“To install Revit over the Internet.”   Mario Sturm

What has pleased me most?

“That I succeeded after several failures and the system could also be applied to other applications.”   Mario Sturm

“That we received very positive feedback from many sides.”   Thomas Schmid

“I was able to accomplish all configuration works in home office without problems and did not “destroy” anything in such a way that manual intervention in the office was required.”   Georg Fritsch

“That many people helped each other with the establishment of teleworking.”   Max Podany

“To talk to colleagues I have never talked to before.”   Andrew Searle