At my employer, while WFH was encouraged for employees before Covid-19, it was explicitly prohibited for contractors. There are some teams where the contractors

At my employer, while WFH was encouraged for employees before Covid-19, it was explicitly prohibited for contractors. There are some teams where the contractors do not have the capability to remotely access work systems (when we had the polar vortex conditions last winter, employees were told to work from home, contractors were either in the office or took PTO). Locally (Chicago), I'm seeing a lot of closures (our suburban schools/libraries/park district all closed effective today, about half the museums are currently closed), and anecdotally, there have been far fewer people than usual on the "L" during my commutes. I imagine that it's a matter of when and not if when the whole company moves to mandatory WFH. Not sure what will happen with the contractors for whom this is not a possibility.