... with forced vaccination proof.
Yep. My college I work remotely in the Bay Area is demanding an immediate return to face-to-face classes.
Students and faculty must produce proof of vaccination before allowed on campus.
No students or faculty showed up the first week. The Monday faculty meeting will be interesting.
Oh, and the face mask, shields and gloves order still stands.
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.
I saw an article last week in a commercial real estate publication that highlights the dilemma these companies face. One number that jumped out at me was that something like 40% of the people who have been working from home since last year not only don’t want to return to the office ... but they’re going to change jobs if they’re forced to go back.
Most offices, in TX, have been fully open, for months.
There is no need to travel to some building to work on a computer when you can sit at home and do the same thing.
I have no issue with the virus. Doesn’t enter my mind.
But working from home has been good for me and I have no need or desire to go back to the office. I think companies may find themselves in a pickle if people just decide they aren’t coming back.
How bout circulating a memo saying that if you dont show up for work, YOU”RE FIRED!
“It was a surprising decision”
That vaccines work is not surprising at all.
Many companies aren’t bringing workers back to the offices. They figured out it’s cheaper to have them work from home.
CC
My friend is staff at a big pharma headquarters, and they’ve just been told they’ll be going virtual pretty much forever — unless/until something unforeseen changes. Virtual-only during the scamdemic seemed to work well for them.
As a career corporate IT worker, I read most of the FR threads regarding the offshoring of IT work to foreign countries, and the problems that resulted from the time lag of 18 hour delays in communications.
I wrote about how foreign IT workers learned to play the "float" game from the time delays to slow down the deadlines while they "clarified" the requirements coming from the American businesses.
I fear that stay-at-home American workers will be tempted to emulate the very things they detested when the work of their former colleagues were given to developing country worker that they were probably forced to train in order to keep their severance benefits.
Going back to the office is the best way to keep a business running optimally, and to keep the human factor nurtured, too.
-PJ
Lawsuits waiting to happen.
That’s a violation of the law for Emergency Use Therapies.
And I wonder if they know that OSHA considers any bad reaction to the JAB, to be a worker’s compensation issue that they will have to pay for, if they have required it?
Have they checked with their insurance company to see if they will be covered for ordering employees to take an experimental therapy?
Airheads and/or dictators are large and in charge everywhere these days.
Although I’ve worked remotely for years, my employer did a huge office remodel. Many employees haven’t even been there to see the new cube farm.
A few have said they won’t ever go back. They are senior enough that they really don’t need a desk anyway.
Heck, one of them even moved a few states away.
Desperation to bring back the Trump Economy.
Having to show up daily to some brick and mortar building means a BIG pay cut for employees.
Not to mention an hour or two daily wasted NO PAY time commuting. Then ya need gas, a wardrobe, car, repairs, insurance, now you have to eat while at work and pay for meals out, and on and on and on. The women need to pay for day care and their expenses don’t end there.
When ya add it all up, those who are commuting simply to work on a computer all day, are getting SCREWED.