Tech Tuesday

2021 NACo Achievement Award Winner

Cook County, Ill., IL

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2021

The Tech Tuesday program was started in April 2020, in response to the rapid shift to remote work for employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees were not comfortable with working remotely and had limited exposure to some of the remote work tools, such as Microsoft Teams, that were quickly becoming standard operating tools. Some were not even frequent computer users and were now needing to quickly learn basic skills. We knew we needed to ""raise all boats"" to ensure a more common level of skills and understanding of these tools. Tech Tuesday started with the goal of helping County employees in a new remote work setting: to become more comfortable with technology tool