Summing Up [Women in IES News]
Lucia Lo Bello · IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine · 2020
Worldwide, the current year has been quite challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its dramatic effects. All of us have had to suddenly change our lives and habits to face such an unexpected global emergency for which we were not prepared. From one day to the next, the luckiest ones, that is, those of us who have not lost our jobs, have had to switch from working on site to smart working. In many cases, smart working has increased the overall productivity of people and teams. For instance, the number of scientific manuscripts submitted to journals during the lockdown has been higher than in normal times. One reason could be that many authors saved time by attending meetings remotely instead of in person, aided by powerful and reliable software platforms, thus saving time that otherwise would be spent in daily commuting to their workplace or abroad.