IDF setting up workstations for reservists
IDF setting up workstations for reservists
The work complexes will allow the soldiers to be in contact with their place of work or studies during the service. They will provide quiet corners and free internet
The IDF is setting up workspaces for the benefit of the reservists at several bases. In a message recently received by reservists in the Navy, soldiers were told that workstations that include free internet at three of the corps' bases, including the largest bases in Ashdod and Haifa, have been recently set up.
In two of the three bases, the soldiers were invited to reserve a work space in a dedicated application (at the Ashdod bases, the coordination is with the base commander). The opening hours of the complexes, according to the announcement, are 8:00 am to midnight at the Ashdod base; and 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the other two bases.
The opening of the workstations is not a decision of the General Staff but rather an initiative of the Navy, which is intended to allow the reservists, especially in the large bases, to connect to work and studies in their free time.
Similar initiatives also exist in six bases in the West Bank and even in a military complex adjacent to Gaza. In these bases, the workstations were set up thanks to a contribution by Urban Place, which operates coworking spaces in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
According to the CEO of Urban Place, Romain Levy, "A few weeks ago I was contacted with a request for help in connecting to the Internet at a West Bank base. The commanders realized that for some of the reservists the lack of computer communication could cost them a year of schooling, and that it was appropriate to allow them to learn as much as possible."
Related articles:
According to Levy, the army provided them with an empty room in each of the six bases where the compounds were set up in the West Bank bases, and in the south near Gaza a work compound was set up inside a tent that receives electricity from a generator.
The rooms have chairs and tables and a working internet connections. There is no need for computers, as the soldiers come with their own laptops anyway. In contrast to the Navy bases, in the West Bank bases the rooms are open throughout all hours of the day.
