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Ask HN: Anyone being ordered back into the office?
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?
- sharemywin 6y agowe'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.
- sharemywin 6y agoWhat are they doing about people with childcare problems?
- ptnx 6y agoThere has been no specific communication - I think people are expected to exhaust FMLA.
- sharemywin 6y agoIt'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?
- ptnx 6y agoOpen office space - permanently closed windows, I believe.
- non-entity 6y agoI 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.
- ptnx 6y agoHow do they determine who goes back when?
- non-entity 6y agoAt 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.