The SARS period was a hard period to live through.
Singaporeans, and the citizens in this part of the globe have to get their working lives adjusted to disruptions and the fear that, if we don’t take care to listen to some of our health indicators, we are going to be in a lot of trouble.
For the company it is tough as well, because everyone have to take their temperature and if you run a temperature, you cannot go to work.
Productivity was reduced drastically.
It did not help that in 2000 to 2002 we have a pretty heavy recession. As we are about to emerge from that, we get hit by SARS.
I came out to work shortly after SARS.
In our office back then, we still see the lingering processes that existed during the SARS period. They exist, just in case things took a turn for the ......