UN Vienna at the Home Office: Instead of 5000 Staff, only 250
The VIC Vienna International Centre informed today that the order that the staff of the four major UN agencies stationed at the VIC should work from home is bearing fruit, and that only about 250 would come to the VIC. Further measures to reduce attendance are planned.
More than 95 per cent of UN Vienna International Centre's personnel working remotely or at home. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Gregoryj77 at en.wikipedia [Public Domain]
The UN Security and Safety Service in Vienna reported today that fewer than five per cent of 5,000 personnel are now working at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) to carry out critical tasks.
That means more than 95 per cent of colleagues are working remotely or otherwise at home.
Management at the four main Vienna-based UN organizations is taking measures to reduce still further the presence of personnel in the VIC to the lowest achievable number possible and, in so doing, to reduce the risk of virus transmission.
Vienna-based UN organizations continue to carry out their important work while dramatically reducing the VIC's footprint.
This is contributing to Austria's efforts to flatten the transmission curve of COVID-19.
Yesterday it became known that the VIC Vienna International Centre (UNO City) had its first case of coronavirus infection, according to which a person who was thought to have contracted influenza as early as 2 March is now infected with coronavirus after all. According to the VIC, none of the first responders have developed any symptoms in the last 14 days.