{"id":18892,"date":"2020-05-28T05:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/verizon-ceo-hans-vestberg-shares-his-covid-19-strategy-and-tactics.html"},"modified":"2020-05-28T05:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:03:33","slug":"verizon-ceo-hans-vestberg-shares-his-covid-19-strategy-and-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/verizon-ceo-hans-vestberg-shares-his-covid-19-strategy-and-tactics.html","title":{"rendered":"Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg shares his COVID-19 strategy and tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, Verizon<\/span> Communications CEO Hans Vestberg joined us for an episode of Extra Crunch Live.<\/p>\n

Vestberg is leading the company through the midst of one its biggest rollouts to date with the push into 5G connectivity. In our discussion, he spoke about how he\u2019s managing the organization during this global crisis, his thoughts on work from home and acquisition strategy, and the ways in which 5G will change the way we work and live.<\/p>\n

(Disclosure: Verizon Communications <\/a> is TechCrunch\u2019s parent company.)<\/p>\n

Extra Crunch members can check out a partial transcript of the conversation (edited for length and clarity) or watch it in its entirety via YouTube video below.<\/p>\n

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His initial reaction to news of the lockdown<\/h2>\n

We\u2019re a large company with 135,000 employees in 70 different countries around the globe. So, of course, we had an early warning when it started actually in Asia. We have employees in Asia, so we got the feeling that this could be really serious. It was early in the first week of February, we moved to the highest emergency or crisis level in the company. That means that we go to a certain crisis mode on how we organized and how we galvanized the company.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s usually put into place every time there is a big national disaster because you need to split between people taking care of the crisis and people taking care of running the business. So we were very early on with that. In the beginning of February, we started the emergency crisis operations center that was taking care of employee questions and prioritization of important things. At the same time, we continued to run the business. That was the first thing we did very early on.<\/p>\n


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The other thing we did very early on is that we understood that this was something unprecedented. I mean, you have been in crisis before. I mean, I\u2019ve been in the telecom crisis, and we\u2019ve been in the banking crisis when everything just went boom. This is something totally different. You cannot use any of your historical experience when it comes to this pandemic, which actually impacts each and every one of us when it comes to health. So I was honest, and thought that they\u2019re going to be a lot of questions. We decided very early on to run our noon live webcast to our employees. We are on our\u2026 I think it\u2019s the 11th week, where at noon every day, we run the webcast for all our employees. That was two of the first things we did.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t think we were going to run for 11 weeks on the new live webcast, but we have done it because we see there\u2019s a very good tool to communicate with all our employees.<\/p>\n

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