Feb 22, 2023 / 01:35PM GMT
Julian C.H. Mitchell - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Research Analyst
Great. Well, thanks, everyone, for being here. It's my pleasure to have up next George Oliver, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Controls. Thank you so much, George, for being here today and for having dinner with us last night.
Questions and Answers:
Julian C.H. Mitchell - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Research AnalystMaybe just to sort of kick it off to get some of the near-term stuff out of the way. How are you seeing demand in the current quarter playing out? The field orders obviously had some lumpiness and COVID effect last quarter. Have you seen any of that stuff kind of start to flush through and improve now?
George R. Oliver - Johnson Controls International plc - Chairman & CEO
Yes, to start when you look at our field base business. They typically are larger projects and from a time to contract is a longer cycle, so it's less of a transactional business. And as we said during our earnings call that