Posted on 04/11/2020 9:20:26 AM PDT by Raycpa
Make sure plenty of soap at the washbasins. Insist on frequent use.
Remember the swine flu? Much deadlier than this measly strain. All we did was put hand sanitizer everywhere.
No panic, no shut downs.
Everyone high risk should telecommute/stay home. Everyone low risk should work in shifts while maintaining social distancing. Everyone recovered can work as much as they like.
Chances are few would require staying home. That’s why so many already are immune because symptoms were so minor they didn’t know they had it.
So ridiculous to have ruined an economy, businesses, life savings for what will be seen is a new flu, little more, imho.
Better to carry your own soap. No telling what the person before you did to or with the soap...especially liquid soap.
Only takes one psycho.
Interesting
I am going to put this out there, it isn’t advice but more of a change on how we do things
There is always costs to everything, office buildings, utilities, property taxes, zillions of other fees and taxes on physical buildings, commuting, insurance, etc
If you employees stay at home and they are 70% productive that means 30% is being used towards watching kids cause they are home from school so they are doing school work, playing, need someone to make them a sandwich etc.
But if we got rid of schools and it lowered your property taxes not only your business taxes but your home taxes as well, you would see a savings there.
Also since less people commuting the roads would need less repaving, savings there
You could rent less office space, if you still need a physical presence, if you own it, you could rent the rest of it out (income)
Just thinking out loud so to speak.
Furloughed everyone for a month (unpaid).
They then asked for volunteers to continue working in critical areas, based on seniority of course.
The youngest, healthiest workers (who could afford it the least) are starving at home while the oldest, most vulnerable (but most senior) employees are still working and getting paid.
Don't you just love labor unions?
I'm working on this as a future project. The drop in productivity is my estimate of how much longer it takes to work remotely without hard copy documents and extra time working with new technologies. I believe the production time will increase over time and as we learn new methods of working together remotely. I don't think my employees are charging time for personal.
I am super excited about the future. The prospect of being able to expand without the need for physical walls, computers etc but I think the optimal arrangements are about 1 year away.
Otherwise, consider good whole room air filter systems for each room (or in addition to the above).
I don’t see any real problem, regardless, but these steps, and face masks and swim goggles, would stop any remaining concern.
Consider a room ionizer.
the problem with this is probably going to be allegations of discrimination since they are already making a lot of noise about minorities being hit harder than white people by this disease.
Indoor air circulation seems to be more problematic than outdoor. Can any of this office be moved under a pavilion, like a lot of the COVID 19 testing sites?
I’ve seen businesses being disinfected after exposure. Big tank full of disinfecting stuff and you can smell the bleach from 50 feet away.
Well, you don’t say, “come on back to your 30 hr workweek @ $10hr” and forget that $800 week you’re making on UE.
This handout was over the top ridiculous...Fed could have supplemented state UE up to 100% instead having more than doubled many workers incomes.
No morale
No productivity
This is a significant concern of mine as well, I am responsible for 116,000 Sf of office space in 6 different buildings.
Top to bottom
All HVAC units will have new filters installed before the first tenants come back in. We typically use an anti-microbial tab in all of our condensate pans, who would do nothing to stop a virus, but prevents other problems.
The condensate coils will be cleaned as well. The coil cleaner solution is sufficient to kill any kind of virus that could linger.
It’s simply too much to clean every duct, but the supply registers will be cleaned using Isopropyl alcohol or a bleach/water solution sufficient to kill anything. As will all contact surfaces, door handles, elevator buttons, faucets or flush handles, toilet seats, etc.
Most everything is sensor touchless, fortunately.
Spacing will be mandatory, but policed by the tenants themselves, not by the Landlord. Beginning on the first week, the accessible surfaces will be cleaned every two hours on rotation.
As the threat subsides, so with the fanatical cleaning, until we’re down to twice per day I.e. just before lunch, and in the evenings when unoccupied.
Lobby doors will be propped open to avoid the need for grabbing the handles - Sanitizer in lobby for in/out use.
We gotta get back to work. Gonna smell like a hospital for a while. My only concern is knowing exactly how airborne this virus is. Could one asymptomatic person infect an entire 20,000 sf office just through regular breathing? I’m guessing not - otherwise many more ships passengers would have caught it.
There are a million ways to keep offices safe but here’s what we do not want to do. 1. Do not divide people between sick (underlying health conditions) and healthy (no underlying health conditions). 2. Do not divide people between young and old. 3. Do not divide people between those with antibodies and those without.
These divisions would build discontent and contempt and will lead to all kinds of negative outcomes for people who have not been “approved” to work. There’s also no good way for the “unapproved” to move to the “approved” list. Instead, follow social distancing guidelines in the office and allow people who believe they are high risk to take temporary disability, although it should be their choice. For the first month back, I believe it would be acceptable to take temperatures to insure that no one is currently sick. Beyond that, let freedom ring.
I like the idea of a schedule.
So, you want no additional steps to be taken?
What kind of work do you do?
Because going back to work, doing nothing different, will end you up right back where you are.
Fortunately, I am the oldest and an ex-smoker so I won't sue myself unless I could collect.
This is so true. I’m very concerned that a good number of lower wage workers will stay out as long as possible, given the lucrative enticement.
The Unemployment Benefit is effectively double what many were making. A lot of folks are going to be in no hurry at all and furloughs may turn into terminations.
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