The presentation by Md. Chanchal Chowdhury and team discusses the challenges faced by Symantec Corporation, including increasing cyber threats and employee burnout. It emphasizes the importance of diversity in the workplace and highlights management strategies such as rotating frontline employees and incorporating recreational activities to enhance employee well-being. Symantec, a Fortune 500 company known for its antivirus and software solutions, continues to adapt to rapidly changing technology demands.

1. Welcome
To Our Presentation

2. Managing The Virus Hunters
Presented by
Md. Chanchal Chowdhury
Robaed Razin Mahmod
Halima Akter Liza
Mohammad Sadman Sakib

4. Symantec Corporation is an American technology company
headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a Fortune
500 company.

5. Company Profile
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: SYMC
S&P 500 Component
Industry Computer software
Founder Gary Hendrix
Area served Worldwide
Products The Norton Antivirus suite,
Enterprise Vault, the Veritas
suite ,and other products
Revenue US$ 6.73 billion
Total assets US$ 13.02 billion
Total equity US$ 5.09 billion
Employees 20,402
Website www.symantec.com
*Source: Wikipedia

6. Challenges
Increasing amounts of
cyber threats everyday
Quickly shifting
customer expectations
Shortened product life
cycles
Difficulty in finding
expert programmers
Employee burn-out
Time sensitive
response

7. “There were less than twelve people and
nothing ever happened.We’d see maybe
five new viruses a day, and they would
spread in a matter of months,not minutes.
” Vincent Weafer

8. Due to difficulty in finding experts in any one place, The response
center team is now a diverse group of people. One senior
researcher is from Hungary, while another is from Iceland.

9. Celebrating diversity in workplace and facilitating a comfortable
and inclusive working environment for people of all ethnicities,
castes, religions, nations etc.

11. Management skills
1. Technical Skills
2. Human Skills
3. Conceptual Skills

13. To avoid employee burnout,
managers now rotate
people in the frontline from
time to time.

14. To fight boredom in
workplace, brainstorming
sessions can be held.
Recreation room can be
built with board-games etc
for employees to break
monotony.

16. Thank You!