It also included a messaging feature that allowed managers at Olympus to keep tabs on how employees were feeling during the pandemic. The app was able to push out mass text messages, including information about new safety protocols, or whether or not it was safe to go to work. Originally intended to prevent lost schedules and out-of-date task lists, in 2020 the app also served to prevent potential COVID infections.Īs a convenient, robust, and familiar resource for the staff, Olympus became an essential backbone for COVID communications. The app, meant as a replacement for paper schedules, sent electronic records to employees so they would know where they were going and what tasks they would do.
In 2017, Ifat Ribon created a scheduling app for Olympus, a janitorial service company for colleges and universities.
