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Sean Scully, Record

Wednesday was a good day.

It was one of the few days in recent months where I can honestly say “This was a fun day at work”.

It wasn’t because anything special happened or that we first appeared in the press.

Instead, it was because I was actually able to see at least some of the employees in person.

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Like many companies, we have been operating largely remotely since late March. We had a few employees who couldn’t or didn’t want to work from home, so there is a structural staff in the office. The rest is scattered in a long line between Lake County and Solano County.

It mostly works well, except for a few technical bugs that make everyone log into the company’s servers remotely, and the occasional miscommunication where someone gets excluded from an email thread.

My office staff did a great job preparing reports and even obtaining photos and videos in these new odd times, and the production system worked incredibly smoothly.

For me, it went very well. I already got set up to run things from home (this is how we did things on the day of the 2014 earthquake, as the newsroom became an office outside my bedroom).

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However, I found it difficult to maintain personal contact with everyone.

I’ve never liked employee meetings – useless employee meetings have consumed so many hours of my potentially productive career.

But in a small organization like ours, it was easy for me to spend one-on-one time by simply wandering around the newsroom or walking into the Upvalley offices for a few minutes.

Despite this, a few weeks ago, our publisher compiled a photo montage for all employees, using selfies from their workplace at home. I realized there were a lot of employees working with me that I hadn’t spotted since sometime around March 20.

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I asked everyone to make an appointment for a while this past week so I can chat one at a time. We talked about how they were postponing, how their jobs were going, what their career plans might be, what stories they were working on, and all sorts of things.

A surprising number of them wanted to meet in person. I’ve been working in the Napa office once a week for the past month or so, and six or seven of them said they’d stop by my office on Wednesday when I was there.

We met with social distancing – I’m on one end of the 6-foot conference table and the employee is on the other. We were completely convinced.

And I was never happy to see them. Some of the employees who had been there this long said there hadn’t been much activity in the newsroom in months.

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Not only did they come to see me, but they stayed with other employees (remotely and with masks of course) to catch up and enjoy each other’s company.

Humans, even introverts, are not built for long-term isolation. We need to see our friends and family, even if we can’t touch them. We need that little talk that seems aimless and squiggly at normal times.

It was the first time my office staff had come together, at least in bits and pieces, since March.

And he made Wednesday a really fun day.

You can reach Sean Scully at 256-2246 or [email protected].

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