First of all, this post of mine is the simplistic view of a sales person and not one of an academically educated epidemiologist or virologist. It is by no means a vote for lockdown or border closures. All of us, myself included, wish for only one thing: to leave Covid-19 behind as soon as possible.

Vienna in particular is going through difficult times. The weeks from November 2nd will be remembered forever, especially for those of us who call Vienna their home. Initially there was the announcement of another, yet "soft" lockdown beginning November 3rd at midnight, including a curfew between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., then the terrorist attack in downtown Vienna on November 2nd deeply affected us all. Nobody expected it (BUT: “stronger than hate #vienna!”) And now, on top of that there will be another three-week total lockdown beginning November 17th at midnight.

In April JoinVision’s management team welcomed a new addition! Chris Dorner is taking the reins together with Wolfgang Gastager and will oversee our Sales and Customer Success teams. Now, with not one but two highly qualified Managing Directors JoinVision can rely on an even stronger leadership in the times ahead.

It is very important to us to make our contribution to society in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. In order to comply with local regulations and to minimize direct personal contacts, our team has been working from home since the beginning of last week.

It happened: We grew too big. In the past we saved ourselves by reducing the existing office community and – when that didn’t help – we rented the office next door. But now this leeway is gone. The newest employees had to confine themselves to find a spot to work.

We are looking forward to it! At Tamedia's “technology exchange conference focused on engineering and technology” we, in this case our Head of R&D Bastian Preindl, will have the chance to talk about a topic, that we have been working on intensively: ontology.