You’re spot on. This event is a brute-force acceleration of a trend that has been slowly making its way through corporate America for more than a decade. Same for working remotely. I used to run an Engineering Training group for Juniper Networks. We produced a lot of e-learning, but the inertia on the part of managers to get staff to take the courses was high. I considered it part of the same problem as with WFH initiatives. I once thought that managers worried that their people would slack off if they WFH or cheat if they used e-learning. Of course, there are some obvious flaws in logic, if that was the case. This current situation has showed me that managers more likely are worried that without bodies in place, they, the managers, will have less control and frankly, may be viewed as expendable.

Managers need to upgrade their self-images and skill sets to do more forecasting, project management, and load balancing. Also, the more people engage in e-learning, the better e-learning will get, because the learners themselves will demand better content and functionality in the e-learning tools.

I like it!

My wife & I were already thinking of home-schooling due to the violence…