05-03-2020, 09:54 AM
(05-03-2020, 08:20 AM)Farm93 Wrote: Presumably at some point a #33 would emerge for many - work in an indoor setting with 10 or more co-workers.
Well #33 may be a long time coming for many people
Amazon told employees who can to work from home to do so until at least 02 Oct 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN22D4TK
I had an email exchange with someone at my employer about going back to the office
- it will be months not weeks
- it will be gradual
- it will be very different, things like some required work from home days, conference rooms reconfigured (ones that hold 8 people now will allow 3 people), one way aisles, box lunches for purchase in the cafeteria, metered use of the breakrooms and bathrooms (not sure how this will work). stairways one direction (our buildings have two), occupy only some of the cubes (every 3rd or 4th one depending on the size of the cubes), clean desk policy to enable more frequent deep cleaning......given these restrictions I can see most people who can effectively work from home continuing to do so
I also think that at least my employer is seeing at least a short term uptick in worker productivity. Most people seem to have turned their commute time into work time. I know I have had a lot more calls starting at 7am than I did when I was going into the office, not sure how long that will remain the norm.
Eric
"the older we get the better we were"
