Thread regarding Allscripts layoffs

That's not good news. PB announced a large reason they located Raleigh office 2 miles down the street was for the visibility of the Allscripts name so people would purchase stock... What a clueless bastid...lol. And his surrounding staff make him look like the smart one...

Allsh_ts is content keeping employees at home. It saves cost and COVID couldn't have come along at a better time. We are using COVID as an excuse for almost every business issue. We've been trying to find tenants for the Raleigh office for awhile so Allsh_ ts employees can be crammed in to a smaller space. No one needs to worry about being forced back into the office any time soon.

Having thousands of VPN tunnels into an enterprise network is a HUGE security threat. A laptop is a node on both the VPN & local LAN. Hackers are now focusing on compromising local LAN devices in an effort to gain command and control of corporate laptops. A VPN cannot protect from this attack vector, other than rejecting some ports and protocols. It’s important to note home automation devices (IOT) are extremely weak links, which is why they should always be segmented from desktop devices. Just my $0.02.

Last update I received is everyone is encouraged to work from home the rest of 2020 but offices are open and we can work out in office provided we comply with in office rules (aka mask). Basically, Allscripts is not requiring people to WFH or or requiring people to go to the office. This seems to make sense as this limits their liability of forcing one option or the other. What I really wonder is how much office space they will want to keep once this dies down. As far as Epic's decision to require people back to go back to the office in September, it seems like they could be opening themselves up to legal issues but like Allscripts RIF's I am sure it went thru all the proper legal channels to minimize / prevent potential lawsuits. Epic has always marched to its own drum beat. I was actually interested in working for them several years ago but found out the most of their postiions required being in their home office with very little Telecommute options.

The last email I got from HR indicates we will be working from through the end of 2020.

Allscripts has found remote virtual teams seems to work for them, because it doesn't matter where people are, they can eventually shift all the jobs to India.

It's pretty well known that EPIC had not invested in a lot of remote-work technologies, because they've invested tons of money constructing their amusement park HQ campus and having a "culture" of tightly integrated groups working together. There was an article mentioned in HISTalk at the beginning of this viral nonsense that clearly stated that EPIC was having problems with remote-working because they were utterly unprepared for it, not structured to function that way, and didn't have the technology/equipment to provide for it.

Allscripts, to be honest, has always invested more in remote-employee technologies from the get-go - I haven't had a "desktop" computer in 15 years, everyone I know was transitioned to a laptop and automatically has VPN access installed to it. The phones are now mostly soft-phone technology running on those laptops. Our "social" software (the horrific badness of "TEAMS" currently) connects us all. Aside from docking stations and screens, there's not much else needed to be fully functional remotely. Now whether that's because of the "culture" of shutting offices or just that people are spread out all over the place is questionable, but I'd say a lot of people in my org have basically been working remote for years now. It's also true that Allscripts has flipped back and forth a number of times on "insisting" that people work from the offices remaining - during every yearly org change/management shuffle for the past 8 years or so the "culture" has gone back and forth between being fine to work from home if you're doing your work to being forced to spend 80% in the office (to justify capital expenses obviously).

Whether or not the top brass decide to force people into the office probably depends more on them weighing their public image against the clipboard-toting consultants telling them to justify capital expenses. It's a lose-lose for the company either way.

Interesting view from a corporate politics perspective:

https://www.wortfm.org/epic-employees-concerned-over-orders-to-return-to-campus/

Yeah, read this one.. lots of FUD.... PB will demand the same.