Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen some unprecedented and frightening changes around the world as a result of COVID-19. We’ve watched as events are canceled, travel becomes restricted, and towns (and even countries) go into lockdown.
\nIn an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus and protect the vulnerable, an increasing number of companies — including Google, Twitter, Shopify and more — are asking their employees to work from home. Here at 1Password, we’re a largely remote company by nature, but even we have implemented steps to slow the spread of the virus by closing our meeting spaces and eliminating business travel.
\nThese are important steps we should all take to protect our teams and loved ones.
\nWe’re big proponents of remote work, but adjusting to it can be a challenge, especially when the decision to close offices is made quickly.
\nWe’ve learned a lot about working remotely over the past 14 years, and have shared some of our top tips to help those struggling to do so effectively.
\nThe hardest part of working remotely is doing so securely. We built 1Password Business to help you do exactly that.
\nWe’re removing the 30-day trial period on 1Password Business so companies can start keeping their teams secure without getting finance involved.
\nSign up for 1Password Business today and get your first 6 months free.
\nIt’s difficult to predict what the next few weeks will look like, but we need to work together to protect our teams, loved ones, and local communities. Reduce unnecessary travel — including travel to and from the office — and be empathetic to the challenges that remote work can bring to your teams and their families. Staying safe is a team effort. ❤️
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\nWe also want Scale AI to make a contribution to combating this disease if we can. Research to track and contain the virus is in its early days, but we know that better data could make a difference. To help these efforts, Scale AI will provide free data annotation services for any researcher working on diagnosing, containing, tracking or finding a vaccine or long-term cure for the virus. If you’re working on a project, you can reach out to us here.
\nThe safety of our team, both full-time and contractors, is a top priority. As a technology company, we are fortunate to be able to leverage existing communications tools to maintain collaboration. Scale AI’s ML-enabled platform also gives a global, work-from-home workforce the ability to deliver data annotation at the level of quality and volume our customers expect. Anyone working with a basic laptop and internet connection can utilize our platform. We are proud to provide a safe option for workers to continue to earn wages to support themselves and their families throughout this period of uncertainty.
\nWe have also reached out to our customers to let them know how we’re working to deliver products and services. We do not expect any disruption to our work at the moment, however, because the situation remains fluid, we will continue to closely monitor our operations. In the event of a disruption, we will make sure to coordinate with your teams to minimize any impact.
\nAdjusting to the reality of a new disease has been difficult and unsettling, but it has been heartening to see a range of companies and organizations come together to help combat this pandemic. We want to make our own contribution to these efforts where we can.
\nGiven the scale of the pandemic, researchers should have every tool at their disposal as they try to track and counter this virus. Researchers have already shown how new machine learning techniques can help shed new light on this virus. But as with all new diseases, this work is much harder when there is so little existing data to go on.
\nIn those situations, the role of well-annotated data to train models or diagnostic tools is even more critical.
\nOur mission at Scale AI is to accelerate the development of AI applications. To help in those efforts, Scale AI will provide free data annotation services for any researcher working on diagnosing, containing, tracking or finding a vaccine or long-term cure for the virus. Advancing and accelerating health research and science is critical to reducing the spread of viral infections. If you have data labeling needs related to this research, please let us know here.
","frontmatter":{"name":"Scale","date":"March 27, 2020","title":"Scale - Supporting researchers and our community during COVID-19","description":"The Data Platform for AI - High quality training and validation data for AI applications","link":"https://scale.com/blog/scale-ai-covid-19-research","price":null,"tags":["Tech"]}}},{"node":{"id":"7bca4ac2-c0a1-5454-bf15-8414b2dfaae6","excerpt":"Starting today, small teams can use Atlassian Cloud products at no charge, in addition to our existing free offerings for teams of all sizes…","fields":{"slug":"/were-making-our-remote-friendly-software-products-available-for-free/"},"html":"At Atlassian, we believe that all organisations deserve access to best-in-class tools that unleash their teams’ potential. That’s why we’re excited to announce that starting this week, our flagship cloud products are now available for free to teams of up to ten people. This is not a time-bound offer. Rather, it’s our full commitment to make our products more easily accessible to more teams throughout the world, full stop.
\nStarting today, teams can get cloud-based editions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk, and Jira Core at no charge. This adds to the existing free offerings already in place for Trello, Bitbucket, and Opsgenie, which give all types of teams a set of great capabilities for collaboration. These products can be accessed starting today at www.atlassian.com/free.
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