The MMAC and Milwaukee 7 are here to support Milwaukee Region businesses during the coronavirus outbreak. Here is the latest information for business leaders:
Register for next week’s
MMAC and M7 webinar:
Focus on small business needs & crisis communications

Tuesday, March 24 at 11 am CT
No cost to participate

As a member of Milwaukee’s business community, we’re grateful that you remain engaged. This is a challenging time for everyone. As MMAC President Tim Sheehy has said, it will get worse before it gets better – but it will get better. And when it does, we want to be poised to transition from crisis to recovery. We’ll all be better off if we continue to collaborate as we weather this storm. Join us for the next edition of our webinar series, which we intend to hold every Tuesday at 11 a.m. CT as this crisis develops. We will address different topics every week. This week’s topics are small business needs and crisis communications.

WELCOME
MMAC President Tim Sheehy

MEDICAL UPDATE
Dr. John Raymond, President/CEO, Medical College of WI

PANELISTS
•    Paul Sweeney - Co-Founder, PS Capital Partners
•    Tina Chang - Chairman/CEO, SysLogic
•    Kimberly Kane - President/CEO, Kane Communications Group

Are you hiring? MMAC exploring job connection solutions

We know the economic fallout from the pandemic is causing incredible difficulty for the vast majority of our member companies and the Milwaukee Region’s business community. We also know that some businesses and other organizations may need to scale up to meet additional demand for their goods and services. If your organization is looking for available employees, please let us know.


RELATED NEWS:

Sheehy joins GoGedders podcast to discuss economic impact of coronavirus on Milwaukee
 
In the latest episode of the GoGedders podcast with host and MMAC member Richie Burke, MMAC president Tim Sheehy identified three phases every Milwaukee company is dealing with: the crisis, reemergence and, eventually, the new normal. "To the extent companies can, they need to be working on all three at once," he said. "You can't kind of waterfall through each step." >>Listen to the podcast here
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RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY'S SURVEY:
How has your business adjusted to the outbreak?
36
Skeleton staff in office, most others working remotely

21
Entire staff working remotely

21
Minimal changes to operations

13
Operations largely or entirely shut down

11
Staggering and limiting size of shifts
Business Journal editorial:
We need to act as a community of employers
 
In an editorial for the Milwaukee Business Journal, MMAC President Tim Sheehy emphasized what members of the Milwaukee business community can do to better withstand the coronavirus pandemic – both as individual employers, and in collaboration. He writes, “Milwaukee’s business community is resilient. Acting fast, direct and aggressively will not only flatten the curve on the impact to our health care providers, it will turn the recovery from a U to a V.”

Associated Press story:
Unemployment relief test for Evers, Republican lawmakers
 
In a story about the potential for Wisconsin to waive a one-week waiting period to receive unemployment benefits, the Associated Press interviewed MMAC member Omar Shaikh of SURG Restaurant Group and MMAC VP of Governmental Affairs Steve Baas.
 
“Additional tools give them additional resources to deal with a new and uncertain situation,” Baas said. “It’s not going to be the perfect tool for every business operation, but it’s better to have more tools than less.”
 
As a reminder, the MMAC is compiling resources for the business community on its coronavirus resource page: mmac.org/coronavirus.html