We take our employees' safety very seriously at OnSIP, which is why our company founders decided to make Tuesday a work from home day in light of the historic blizzard that beset the Northeast not twenty four hours ago. But our company, like so many other OnSIP hosted PBX users, kept everything moving from various locations on Tuesday by using all the tools our platform has to offer.
By Monday night, forecasters were dredging up statistics from the 1800s to contextualize Juno's awesome power (Source: The Weather Channel)
Into the Eye of the Storm: InstaPhone Usage Spiked 30%
"It was nice having everything on my laptop all at once," said OnSIP Lead Developer Will Mitchell. "InstaPhone enabled me to keep voice and video communications open with my co-workers right from my browser. I didn't have to work near my phone and could limit my focus to the task at hand. I just needed my version of Chrome to access the full capabilities of our hosted PBX platform."
Will was not alone in his remote office setup on Tuesday. InstaPhone usage spiked 30% during the purported blizzard's wrath, a tell-tale sign that customers were playing it safe at home. Or maybe some of them just couldn't make it in, because for the first time in its 110 year history, the vast NYC subway system ground to a halt out of reverence for the impending storm.
No Laughing Matter
The Onion, the world famous satire newspaper and beloved OnSIP Customer, may have put it best in its latest column: NYC Mayor: ‘Reconcile Yourselves With Your God, For All Will Perish In The Tempest’
As a major winter storm continued its advance toward New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio advised residents Monday to make peace with whatever higher power they call God, for all shall meet their death in the coming tempest. “The furious hoarfrost bearing down upon us knows neither mercy nor reason, and all within the five boroughs will perish, cowering in their brittle dwellings,” said de Blasio
Update: As of writing, Juno dropped 9.8 inches of snow on NYC. Stay strong, New Yorkers.