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Telling people to work from home isn't necessarily of benefit if they're still out and about in the evenings, and most people don't have a few weeks of food sto
by geofft 7y ago
Telling people to work from home isn't necessarily of benefit if they're still out and about in the evenings, and most people don't have a few weeks of food stocked at home. If the cost is minimal but so is the benefit, there's not much point - your CEO may as well tell everyone to eat oranges and get enough vitamin C on "why not" grounds.
Saying "Prepare to not leave your house at all for two weeks, and we'll give you a couple days off to prepare but get on the VPN once you've quarantined yourself" would be of much more benefit, but it's much more disruptive.
- eli 7y agoYeah but it decreases the odds of a whole office getting sick at once, which seems like worst case
- catlas3r 7y agoThe employer has no legal way to mandate that. That said, if it were consistent with generally accepted recommendations from the government, and my employer was not just allowing but encouraging that recommendation, I probably would comply voluntarily.