WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — All International Monetary Fund employees will work from home on Friday, the fund said yesterday, to test systems in case the spreading coronavirus epidemic makes working remotely a necessity.
The World Bank, too, has been testing remote work procedures on a smaller scale, a spokesman told AFP.
Last week, the IMF and World Bank announced that their spring meetings in April would become a virtual event amid the spread of COVID-19, which has sickened 110,564 people in 100 countries and killed 3,862.
As more governments and companies are encouraging work from home to contain the virus, the IMF said in a statement it would, for the first time, conduct a “fund-wide remote work exercise”, as part of its “crisis preparedness efforts and in preparation for the virtual spring meetings in April”.
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