Posted on 05/16/2021 1:07:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Rich Lesser, the chief executive officer of Boston Consulting Group, gathered with his executives Friday in the wake of the CDC’s new guidance that says vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks and observe social distancing in most instances.
At issue is whether the relaxed rules change how quickly BCG and other companies should bring workers back into skyscrapers from Manhattan to San Francisco.
“It was a surprising decision,” Mr. Lesser said of the new federal guidelines. He said BCG executives would be holding more meetings to think through the company’s plans on Sunday and Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated guidance on Thursday threw a new wrinkle into reopening plans, raising questions about whether to speed up office-return dates. Whether companies change course quickly depends, in part, on local laws governing office capacity and masks, as well as the comfort level of employees being asked to return, executives said.
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I’m sorry to hear that. Masks are not all they claim to be.
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Had to wear a mask almost 2 days straight last weekend as I flew from Denver to my new job near London. My nose and face have the worse maskne from all the rubbing and heat it caused. Face and nose rubbed raw. It will take a month or more to heal if don’t wear a mask at all.
I had cancer treatment on my nose and face a few years ago and it’s super super sensitive since then.
So yeah I’m one of those that absolutely refuse to wear a mask.
would happily challenge that, get them to reject my permission, and then sue them into the ground
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Students can continue to learn remotely if they feel unsafe.
California is an at-will state. Failure to comply means they can terminate for any reason.
Faculty do not. This will be a huge issue this fall when most colleges are requiring the same from Faculty and Students.
I think many businesses will move to a hybrid office/home model. Some will still need to be in the office.
Yep. Gubmit is instructing the largest companies to get going so that forced vaccinations can increase.
Y’all have to wear gloves as well?
1. They are best used for short meetings and/or meetings with participants who are spread out over a large geographic area. If your organization is holding a meeting and the participants are all within the organization and located nearby, the meeting should be held in person.
2. When I'm a participant in a web meeting in a setting that would have been conducted as a formal business meeting before COVID, I always dress appropriately and even go to my office so I can appear on the screen in a professional setting.
3. Anyone who has demonstrated a woeful lack of consideration and/or engaged in irritating behavior during web meetings over the last year has permanently lost all credibility in my eyes. That means the stupid dog on your lap during the meeting is more professional than you are. It means get the kids the hell out of the room when you're in a web meeting. And it means I will NEVER do business with the jackass who sits in on my business networking group web meetings with his iPhone constantly pinging and interrupting the meeting while others are speaking.
4. Web meetings should be held as a matter of convenience and should never be an excuse for laziness.
5. Meetings should be held either in person or online -- rarely ever BOTH. Unless the meeting is mainly a presentation and not an active, engaged discussion, mixing live participants with online participants doesn't work well at all, in my experience.
That's a good point. I've been saying for months that nothing does more to tell employees that the workplace is UNSAFE than having them come back to an office that is run like a hospital ICU.
I hear ya!
“It was a surprising decision”
That vaccines work is not surprising at all.
If I have paid tuition at one of these schools, I expect to be allowed the same access as everyone else. Would happily sue them.
As to faculty, until the vaxxes are fully approved, I would sue.
“It fills me with foreboding why they are so adamant about everyone getting it.”
They fear variant spread, especially among young Latino voters.
1. First he insisted that they are doing this because they operate more efficiently that way.
2. Then he admitted that they are doing it only because they're paying exorbitant rents for office space, and simply don't want to be wasting that money.
3. Finally, he also admitted that every one of these clients is currently planning to eliminate at least 80% of their office space and have most of their staff work from home ... AFTER these current leases expire.
Read through those three items a couple of times, and I can assure you that the WSJ is peddling a line of bullsh!t from these employers right now.
“If your staff has been working at home for more than a year, there’s no compelling reason to bring them back into an office.”
Working from home has been a huge failure. Less productivity, more screwups becuse no face to face, hard for new employees to learn from older employees, on and on.
Everyone of my business clients hate it.
“The indoor mask requirements that most offices have probably won’t be going away soon ...”
About a third of shoppers at my Florida Wal-Mart were maskless about a week ago.
About half of shoppers at my Florida Wal-Mart were maskless today.
In two weeks if you want to see a mask ride public transit. Used car prices have skyrocketed for a reason.
And to phrase Rahm Emanuel, let Trump take full advantage of this.
Here's how:
Simply have a GOP Senator like Rand Paul, do what Chuck Schumer did in July 2008, and send an "Indy Mac Letter" to the most vulnerable commercial real estate holding firms, and thusly unwind the global commercial real estate market, which is now backed by nearly as much bad paper as the residential real estate market was in 2008.
That will throw US and the globe into a deep Recession; ruin Resident Asterisk -- perhaps depose him and provoke an out-and-out military junta; and at a minimum, give us the House in 2022.
“If your staff has been working at home for more than a year, there’s no compelling reason to bring them back into an office.”
Productivity has suffered from being out of the office.
Rich people traditionally lived on high ground. Why? To keep better track of their workforce.
What I did do, however, was shrink my office size and do more of my work at home. This started even before COVID and was driven by client needs more than anything else (I happen to live closer to my biggest clients than to my office!), but now that I've been doing it for 18 months I see no reason to go back to the way I was operating before.
I work in a STEM field, and I can tell you that over the last two years I have done a 180-degree turn on my approach to this model. Heck — just last week I sat in on a municipal zoning board meeting 150 miles away. And here’s why I don’t think we are ever going back from this: I was also available to sit in on a second one in a different state on the same evening.
The more important angle is: What does WalMart require for their employees?
“commercial real estate market”
Much commercial real estate will get knocked down and replaced by residential real estate.
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