I work for a small (~100 employees) electronics manufacturer. Most of our developers have been working from home since mid-March. We have been ordered to return to the physical office, despite an ongoing uptick in COVID19 cases in the area. Despite safety precautions, myself and many of my co-workers are concerned and uncomfortable with this. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced a similar situation, and if so - how did you handle it?
Ask HN: Anyone being ordered back into the office?
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#2we're lucky. Our management is doing it in three phases. Phase 1 People that want to go in.
Phase 2 is encourage.
Phase 3 is require.
And we're not even at phase 1. And, I think they're talking about September for phase 1, maybe.
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#3What are they doing about people with childcare problems?
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#4It's funny because one of the major recommendations is to keep having Zoom meetings. So, what's the point.
Do they have an open office?
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#5What are they doing about people with childcare problems?
There has been no specific communication - I think people are expected to exhaust FMLA.
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#6It's funny because one of the major recommendations is to keep having Zoom meetings. So, what's the point. Do they have an open office?
Open office space - permanently closed windows, I believe.
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#7I might be going back in a couple weeks. They're bringing people back in office mid-June at limited capacity (25% returning at that time) so I'll see. This is at a large, but regional fortune 500 company.
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#8I might be going back in a couple weeks. They're bringing people back in office mid-June at limited capacity (25% returning at that time) so I'll see. This is at a large, but regional fortune 500 company.
How do they determine who goes back when?
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#9I might be going back in a couple weeks. They're bringing people back in office mid-June at limited capacity (25% returning at that time) so I'll see. This is at a large, but regional fortune 500 company.
How do they determine who goes back when?
At the moment in think different teams are doing different things. My boss told me that this first wave is mostly voluntary for our team. Also people will be coming on only part of the week, I think 2 days.