Vantaggi
Meraki has shown up in the best way during this emergency time. The company hasn't done a lot of bragging about the ways that they have supported people, so I'm going to do the bragging for them. First with their employees. We received the message to mandatory work from home a full week before SF county announced shelter. Leadership has been very supportive and we've been told many times to prioritize family and well-being. Overall, managers seem to be flexible with the staff, knowing that people have kids and other responsibilities. My manager specifically has been overly flexible knowing that I have a young kid at home and can't work my normal 8 hours. With our vendors and suppliers and the community, Meraki is making sure they are still being paid even though offices are closed. The goal is to make sure all the companies that support us are still around when we recover. We are donating meals to nonprofits and hospitals. Networking equipment was also sent to hospitals. With our customers, special arrangements are being made on licenses and renewals too. Lastly, our leaders have been pretty transparent. We had an AMA a few days ago and it seemed like no topic was off limits.
Svantaggi
This is more of a con on Covid-19 but things are changing so fast that it's hard to keep up. There are probably 4 emails a week from Cisco, Meraki, HR, or others about a change to some process because of what's happening. I know people are working hard on comms.