Covid-19: Hong Kong’s civil servants battling 21st-century disease with 20th-century technology and bosses stuck in the past


Many have neither hardware nor software needed to work from home. Meanwhile, low-tech managers spurn virtual meetings and insist on seeing staff face to face. — SCMP

Civil servant Cherrie spends an hour every morning travelling by bus and MTR from her home in Ma On Shan to her office in Sheung Wan.

Although most civil servants have been told to work from home, she has to be at the Information Services Department, where she sits by a telephone and computer, handling press inquiries five days a week.

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