It's like the classic locked room mystery with a twist. Instead of a crime with no way out, we're looking at making sure there's no way in. Deep within the corporate world of nondisclosure agreements and hush-hush secret projects, there's the clause known as the locked room.
Typically, such a private space is designed into a working office, but in our work-at-home pandemic world of COVID-19, some office exiles need to implement a locked room protocol at home. That's what we're going to discuss in this article and show in the accompanying video.
Those of you who haven't spent a lot of time in and around the corporate or federal world may not be familiar with the whole locked room clause, but the basic idea is that often, confidential materials, information, documents, hardware need to be brought in and kept secure. In many companies, there are rooms or a room that is designated as a locked room and they can often be inspected by the party who is the other half of that nondisclosure agreement or confidentiality clause.
We're now working from home a lot more, and so we need to implement that kind of function here at home. For some of us, that's not as big a problem because we're not dealing with kids, teenagers, guests, and that sort of stuff. But for some families, the room with all the goodies is irresistible to the teenagers and that room has to be locked, both because of the job and the contractual requirements, and also because there might be things in there that are dangerous or delicate that you would normally have at work and are now working with at home.
The accompanying video shows two things: I’m going to replace the original room doorknob with a Yale Smart Lock, and then show a safe that we can put some of the most confidential items in.
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