![]() ![]() So we took a look at our current tools and then eventually landed on expanding with a Citrix product that really allowed us to utilize the capability to have virtual desktop, essentially for employees to be able to work off of their own personal devices from home. I'll just say that our state and I think many states were not necessarily a mobile workforce. She was focused on the operation side of that rapid switch to thousands working at home. That's Jennifer Ricker, the Assistant Secretary of the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology. ![]() So all of that kind of happening at once, along with the majority of the state workforce, trying to go home at once, it's really that volume. So there were challenges with that as well. My first initial thought was this is going to be a challenge because in the States, work from home was not something that was a norm.įrom a statewide perspective, we have a number of different devices sitting on desks, different ages, they might be running different operating systems. In a matter of days, the state shifted gears and put a plan in action to support 25,000 new remote workers. Before the pandemic, the majority of frontline state employees in Illinois worked in government offices. That's what it felt like to Ron when he realized how quickly he'd have to respond and get the entire workforce of the state out of their offices and working at home. That punch in the mouth from Mother Nature was of course the pandemic. He's the Secretary of Innovation and Technology for the state of Illinois. The stakes are high and the landscape is unpredictable.Ī boxer once said, "Everyone has a plan until they're punched in the mouth." And I would say, Mother Nature punched us in the mouth. Luckily we're not at war, but we have had to mobilize our workforce to keep our businesses and companies afloat. You're listening to Remote Works, an original podcast by Citrix. And now so many decades later stands as proof that you can create a large scale remote work plan that can have spectacular and historic results. Ultimately that distant synchronization of forces helped win the war. Yet the team at Camp X were able to put their plans into action and send their spies abroad with their individual missions. It was a remote work scenario with a head office that was giving the orders from thousands of miles away. In all, it's estimated that up to 2,000 people were trained at Camp X, thousands of miles from the British intelligence headquarters in London, England. Bailey adapted special equipment that could send countless coded messages between New York and the UK to aid in their war time collaboration. ![]() Another innovation came from Pat Bailey, an electrical engineer who headed up communications at Camp X. Created in this remote location, these brilliant innovations helped the spies stay alive behind enemy lines. Radios disguised as plain suitcases, a camera that shoots bullets, a sword disguised as a cane, a lipstick tube concealing a dagger. They were given lessons in code breaking, hand to hand combat and taught how to use explosives to blow up bridges and railways.Ī group of clever scientists working in secrecy came up with classic spy devices. Spies and training were relocated to the new secret remote work location. Prime Minister Winston Churchill called it, "The clenched fist that would provide the knockout blow to the axis powers." Designed as a top secret training school, it was the first official site for British, Canadian and American intelligence officers during the Second World War. The answer lay thousands of miles away from England, across the ocean in a small sleepy Canadian village, about an hour outside of Toronto. Stevenson would have to look farther a field, beyond the reach of German bombers. He tasks the Chief of British Security Coordination, Sir William Stevenson to find a secure, remote location for a top secret espionage training center. Twice in a single generation, the catastrophe of world war has fallen upon us. So Prime Minister Winston Churchill puts out the order to train hundreds of spies to gather intelligence on the Germans. Britain desperately needs to gain the upper hand. London, Belfast, Manchester and other cities are all being bombed mercilessly. ![]()
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