Personal Request for COVID-19 referral

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RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - magnus - 05-23-2020

(05-23-2020, 11:04 AM)Hurlburt88 Wrote: my company is currently re-opening, and I am personally fighting a battle over masks being mandatory versus voluntary. This helps me.

I have a feeling that this will happen a lot to the people (at least active) on this board as there's a general lean towards being more sensitive/acknowledging of the potential transmission vectors/dangers of this virus.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - burger - 05-23-2020

(05-23-2020, 11:39 AM)magnus Wrote:
(05-23-2020, 11:04 AM)Hurlburt88 Wrote: my company is currently re-opening, and I am personally fighting a battle over masks being mandatory versus voluntary. This helps me.
I have a feeling that this will happen a lot to the people (at least active) on this board as there's a general lean towards being more sensitive/acknowledging of the potential transmission vectors/dangers of this virus.

My wife is considering taking a new job for a substantial pay cut to get full time telework. Her current employer is discussing "reopening" in a way that would mean many unsafe face-to-face meetings.

It's a sucky situation, but at least we may have some options. I know a lot of people don't.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - Mick - 05-23-2020

(05-23-2020, 12:08 PM)burger Wrote:
(05-23-2020, 11:39 AM)magnus Wrote:
(05-23-2020, 11:04 AM)Hurlburt88 Wrote: my company is currently re-opening, and I am personally fighting a battle over masks being mandatory versus voluntary. This helps me.
I have a feeling that this will happen a lot to the people (at least active) on this board as there's a general lean towards being more sensitive/acknowledging of the potential transmission vectors/dangers of this virus.
My wife is considering taking a new job for a substantial pay cut to get full time telework. Her current employer is discussing "reopening" in a way that would mean many unsafe face-to-face meetings.

It's a sucky situation, but at least we may have some options. I know a lot of people don't.

We surveyed 1,100 employees to get a sense of who wanted to return to work in our offices. About one in six wanted to return to the offices. The kicker? It's all the old-school, old folks. Lots of 60+ year olds want to come back to the offices. And they're at the most risk.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - BostonCard - 05-23-2020

My wife just got hired, and the one thing that her new employer budged on was work from home (which is good for them, because that was the one thing my wife was not going to accept more than twice a week). There was no space for negotiation on salary, bonus, stock appreciation rights, or even outlines of what a performance bonus might look like. But they did say she can work from home five days a week (though she said she could go in for important face to face meetings).

BC

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - 82 Card - 05-23-2020

(05-23-2020, 12:48 PM)Mick Wrote: We surveyed 1,100 employees to get a sense of who wanted to return to work in our offices. About one in six wanted to return to the offices. The kicker? It's all the old-school, old folks. Lots of 60+ year olds want to come back to the offices. And they're at the most risk.

This 60+ year old filled out a similar survey at work. I voted for teleworking as much as possible and added a comment that they should require everyone in the office to wear masks. For me, as much as possible would be 99% of the time.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - stupac2 - 05-23-2020

My wife's company (about half the size of Mick's) did a survey and found that single-digits number of people want to return the office. About twice that many would if needed. Vast majority wanted to continue to WFH.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - Mick - 05-24-2020

(05-23-2020, 08:28 PM)stupac2 Wrote: My wife's company (about half the size of Mick's) did a survey and found that single-digits number of people want to return the office. About twice that many would if needed. Vast majority wanted to continue to WFH.

Lord knows, I don't want to go into the office. I used to love taking the DC Metro. Clean, fast, efficient. And now it's a potential death factory.

Here's the funny part to the story:

1) Prior to the pandemic, a large portion of our staff wanted to WFH as much as possible, chiefly because our major offices are in cities with impacted transportation (NYC, Chi, Hou, LA, Phil, WashDC). Everyone's one way commute was an hour.

2) Management wanted people in the office because, magically they thought they could keep a better eye on people to ensure that they were working. Which is funny because billable people bill their time, so you know that they are working. Staff work is typically either project or process based - which means that they can't get away from deadlines or the work necessary to pursue it.

3) The joke on both is that -- if the firm so desired -- the capability of technological surveillance is so pervasive that it's very easy to see what people are doing and when.

4) Pandemic happens, offices close. And the firm lays off nearly 100 staff. Everyone's workload increases.

5) So now management has the Grand Experiment forced upon them. And presto -- they finally understand what staff has been promising for many moons...that people are more efficient when working from home, and more 24/7 availability, to be candid. They have to be.

6) So now, management is looking at their leases and wondering "how much do we really need to spend on rent, utilities, supplies, etc.?" The paperless office will some become the officeless, paperless, office with all the attendant savings.

7) American businesses have not suffered an economic dislocation like this in -- well, ever. This is considerably worse than the Great Depression in terms of jobs lost and lives ruined. So American business hasn't had the need to plumb the depths of efficiency like they are right now. And when or whether we get the vaccine is immaterial at this point. America will become a failed nation, and the failure will be rooted in our collective responses to the pandemic.

https://eand.co/the-implosion-of-the-american-economy-49198e4c6c70

Stanford economists (hopefully unlike Dr. Jay B) estimate that fully half of the lost 40 million jobs won't return. And for some reason, the Medical/Media/Political Elites haven't tumbled onto this fact yet.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - BostonCard - 05-28-2020

Looks like the CDC has weighed in:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/health/cdc-coronavirus-offices.html

Quote:Upon arriving at work, employees should get a temperature and symptom check.
Inside the office, desks should be six feet apart. If that isn’t possible, employers should consider erecting plastic shields around desks.

Seating should be barred in common areas.
And face coverings should be worn at all times.
These are among sweeping new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the safest way for American employers reopening their offices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - akiddoc - 05-28-2020

(05-28-2020, 06:45 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Looks like the CDC has weighed in:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/health/cdc-coronavirus-offices.html

Quote:Upon arriving at work, employees should get a temperature and symptom check.
Inside the office, desks should be six feet apart. If that isn’t possible, employers should consider erecting plastic shields around desks.

Seating should be barred in common areas.
And face coverings should be worn at all times.
These are among sweeping new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the safest way for American employers reopening their offices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

BC

Of course I have continued to work at the office. We can't always be 6 feet away from others but everyone is in the habit of keeping as much distance as possible. I always wear a mask unless I am speaking on the phone. Generally I can go into a private office to do that. I wear an N95 at work. I am the only employee in the Pediatric Department over 60 years old at both of my jobs, so they let me use their N95's as needed. I have not yet seen a kid with a positive C-19 screen. Possibly there have been some false negatives. I have seen some serious stuff, like new onset leukemia, new onset diabetes type I, serious burns and lacerations, etc. There are still "normal" bad things to contend with. The adult medicine people are seeing C-19 pretty frequently. This is a strange virus.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - Mick - 06-25-2020

Hi everyone...I have need for a COVID-19 expert/consultant who can help with office/facility openings in Southern California. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks in advance, feel free to PM me.

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - BostonCard - 06-25-2020

(06-25-2020, 09:43 AM)Mick Wrote: Hi everyone...I have need for a COVID-19 expert/consultant who can help with office/facility openings in Southern California. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks in advance, feel free to PM me.

How much can I get paid to say "Don't do it!"

BC

RE: Personal Request for COVID-19 referral - M T - 06-25-2020

(05-28-2020, 07:35 PM)akiddoc Wrote: I have not yet seen a kid with a positive C-19 screen. Possibly there have been some false negatives.

It took me awhile to figure out the toddler mentioned on June 15 apparently didn't get tested. (I took that posting to indicate you had seen the toddler at least 2 weeks earlier.)

I would think the county/state should now be requiring testing of suspected cases (to get an accurate count, and to avoid statistical anomalies where children are under-reported). I haven't seen such an order.