Working Life: We had to think outside the box during the pandemic
Neil Johnson, CEO, Croí
6.45am
Rising time varies slightly depending on whether I’m working from home or travelling to the Croí Heart and Stroke Centre in Newcastle (Galway). Prior to the pandemic, I went into work every day, now I'm at home 80% of the time. We were a very people-facing organisation, but Covid changed everything. We had to close the centre, but it didn’t lie idle - we offered it to the HSE and it became their regional contact tracing centre. We also gave frontline workers the temporary use of our three apartments near Galway University Hospital that pre-Covid were used by relatives of emergency heart and stroke patients.
