Ayeni explains how BHM is responding to COVID-19, ensuring staff safety
The Chief Executive Officer of BlackHouse Media (BHM) Group, Adekunle Ayeni, has announced some of the measures his organisation is taking to ensure safety of staff and their family members in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus as confirmed cases increase to 12 in Nigeria.
BHM is a leading global Media and Public Relations Agency operating from Lagos, Nigeria and has other subsidiaries – Info Digital Africa (ID Africa) a marketing, media and technology agency as well as Plaqad Inc., a social network connecting brands and individuals to bloggers and social influencers.
BHM Group’s response to COVID-19 is focusing on: asking staff to work remotely; providing them with support to get the job done; asking its staff to ensure social distancing; advising other organisations in Nigeria to take similar measures.
Ayeni, in a message to his staff which he also shared on Twitter, said BHM Group has instructed its staff to work remotely from their homes effective from Thursday March 19, 2020 as part of precautionary measures to protect them from contracting COVID-19 while commuting to office daily.
“It is mandatory for all staff to reduce or avoid all non-essential visit to offices, public gatherings, including parties, religious houses or mass transit systems.
“We are taking this essential precautionary method because we believe it is better safe than sorry; better to be cautious and wrong, than to find ourselves in a situation where we are gnashing our teeth, Ayeni said as he explains why BHM is taking the measures.
BHM is not just asking its staff to work remotely, it is also providing them with financial and technical supports to aid their productivity as they work from home.
“We will do all we can to support everyone that needs some kind of help to work remotely, be it WIFI, alternative electric power, personal computer or any other tools,” Ayeni said.
Being one of the first in the media and communication industry to take precautionary measures putting its ‘people before profit’, BHM is also advising other organisations in Nigeria to tread its path in handling COVID-19.
Ayeni wrote: “I strongly believe that a lot of organisations in Nigeria should and would take similar measures in the coming days. But we cannot control what other parties do. What we have control over is what we do as a responsible organization that puts our people before profit.”
