#29 Corporate response
LVMH is making unbranded sanitizers at their perfume factory. Zoom is providing K-12 schools their video conferencing tool for free. Tableau is creating a public database center to host COVID-19 data. For the next 120 days, Ally Bank is waving the fee for over draft. Of course, Adobe joined that effort, offering free Creative Cloud tools to students at home who has login from campus lab.
I have never seen such overwhelming corporate responses across the globe to any tragedy to this degree. Why such an active response? Maybe it is because, unlike Hurricane Katrina or Japan’s tsunami, employees in these companies are impacted by COVID-19 directly & overwhelmingly. It is very real issue to everyone coming up with these programs.
When you experience the pain first hand, you are more than ready to empathize it.