Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 8

106 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 8 Managed IT Services • IT Security Services • Cloud Services • IT Projects & Consulting www.NetGainIT.com IT Doesn’t Have To Be Like This. Visit offers.netgainit.com/bvm to schedule a free cybersecurity consultation Technology should work for you. Since 1984, small & medium businesses have chosen NetGain Technologies – because we're an IT partner you can count on. able to upgrade their online banking systems in 2020. The bank also worked with IT solutions company NetGain Technologies, to upgrade its internal network and security systems during the pandemic. Fortunately, many of the employees on the operations side of things were able to work remotely. Branch personnel who were sent home, were told there was not going to be any cut in pay. Fortin shares, “We were basically going to pay everyone for the 40-hour work week, whether they were in the branches or not. That was our decision not to have them there, and we were expecting them to be available in case someone got sick. We assured everyone this was not going to impact their take home pay.” As schools and daycares began closing their doors, employees found themselves in a variety of unexpected circumstances. It was left up to the staff to decide how the team would be split up, something which really reflected on the work culture and community mindedness of the bank.