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So to clarify the language - >The days the office is closed are being made Work From Home days as opposed to days off, however — unless an individual team lead

So to clarify the language - >The days the office is closed are being made Work From Home days as opposed to days off, however — unless an individual team leader decides otherwise. I would expect a good leader to decide otherwise, but who knows, maybe leaders deciding otherwise might get penalized. So that means you have to work from home. BUT if there are power outages / connectivity issues as there might be in a natural disaster they cannot work from home or if they are being evacuated then they cannot work from home, in these cases then they use their sick days. (but how - because they can't register those? Do they call in or something) But of course what is the main problem then is they have 10 sick days in the year and >This leaves them fewer days later in the year to use in case of an actual illness or other personal emergency, like staying home to care for a sick child... There is also some stuff about the manual not actually allowing anyone to use "natural disaster" as an excuse, but I guess that will be cleared up.

tbrownaw 2y ago
>> But of course what is the main problem then is they have 10 sick days in the year and >This leaves them fewer days later in the year to use in case of an actual illness or other personal emergency, like staying home to care for a sick child... << What was the usual allotment of sick days in the before times when regular wfh wasn't common? What's the current usual allotment for jobs that can't be done remotely?
- scarface_74 2y ago
  Every company I worked for had 10 sick days. I’m on my 10th job I can’t remember ever coming close to using those. But I can’t imagine any company I have worked for being a stickler for my going over slightly. But besides Amazon and General Electric, I’ve always worked for small companies Funny enough, the company I work for now only gives us 9 sick days. But we have “unlimited” PTO. It’s weird that they do that they do that
- bryanrasmussen 2y ago
  no idea as this is discussion of U.S, but there is also consideration of industry standards. From an IT perspective this is a big warning sign, don't work for this company! Of course maybe they pay double what others do in which case it would be worth it. But probably not.

tbrownaw 2y ago

>> But of course what is the main problem then is they have 10 sick days in the year and >This leaves them fewer days later in the year to use in case of an actual illness or other personal emergency, like staying home to care for a sick child... << What was the usual allotment of sick days in the before times when regular wfh wasn't common? What's the current usual allotment for jobs that can't be done remotely?

scarface_74 2y ago
Every company I worked for had 10 sick days. I’m on my 10th job I can’t remember ever coming close to using those. But I can’t imagine any company I have worked for being a stickler for my going over slightly. But besides Amazon and General Electric, I’ve always worked for small companies Funny enough, the company I work for now only gives us 9 sick days. But we have “unlimited” PTO. It’s weird that they do that they do that
bryanrasmussen 2y ago
no idea as this is discussion of U.S, but there is also consideration of industry standards. From an IT perspective this is a big warning sign, don't work for this company! Of course maybe they pay double what others do in which case it would be worth it. But probably not.