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Freeper advice: Brainstorm safe ways to return office workers
4/11/20 | Raycpa

Posted on 04/11/2020 9:20:26 AM PDT by Raycpa

How about some brainstorming on how to reduce risk for office workers to return to work if not able to telecommute.

How about splitting group of employees into high risk and low risk categories and bring back low risk employees that are younger and have no preexisting conditions.

Then split the returning group in shifts so that some workers work one day while others work another day. This would reduce the transmission rate by half.

Also use testing to determine who is immune and let them come back full time.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coronavanity; coronavirus; covid19; vanity
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I have small office with 12 employees and want to think of ways to bring us back while keeping everyone safe. Freeper's thoughts are the best.
1 posted on 04/11/2020 9:20:26 AM PDT by Raycpa
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there’s no more risk now than there was before this charade began. your workers stayed home if they had the flu and they’ll do so in the future.


2 posted on 04/11/2020 9:22:44 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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My idea is clear plexiglass in crowded offices.

between desks that are close to each other

a wall of plexiglass in conference rooms so you can have a close face to face meeting without sharing your air

etc.


3 posted on 04/11/2020 9:24:45 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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There are movable panels....would work the same as keeping distance...it's really about coughing on someone and sharing common spaces.

You can go a bit further...with disposable masks and gloves. Everyone wipes their place down when they come in...and when they leave.

4 posted on 04/11/2020 9:25:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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How about splitting group of employees ...

Do anything like that and the "perpetually slighted, professional bitchers" will have the ACLU after your butt. You be a racist.
5 posted on 04/11/2020 9:26:20 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Always make sure you have the receipt when returning anything.


6 posted on 04/11/2020 9:26:46 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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I can work from home but if I’m told I have to return to the office soon, I plan on wearing a mask AND clear plastic goggles like one would wear using a bench grinder or a weed eater and I don’t give a flying rip if I look like a moron or not.


7 posted on 04/11/2020 9:27:07 AM PDT by MachIV
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What kind of business? How are their work spaces arranged now?


8 posted on 04/11/2020 9:27:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I’m kinda partial to the fishbowl over your head as freeper Geronimo suggest.


9 posted on 04/11/2020 9:28:23 AM PDT by SanchoP
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I suggest there is no need for anything beyond what we’ve always done. Get sick, go home, take HCQ. Susceptible employees should take extra care and monitoring.

If you must, use a non-evasive, repeatable temperature reader to identify someone who may have a symptom. Careful —if its from China—to be calibrated properly.

Even temperature may not be a complete answer.

Buck up, or wither and die. Best of luck.


10 posted on 04/11/2020 9:29:19 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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What kind of business? How are their work spaces arranged now?

Converted three bedroom house. Using kitchen as conference room, living room as front office, dining room as private office and three bedrooms have 1 to three desks.

11 posted on 04/11/2020 9:29:20 AM PDT by Raycpa
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If you don’t feel well stay home. If you’ve been exposed stay home

Wash your hands ( Lordy why did people have to learn this)

Don’t spit in the side walk

Common on folks. Use common sense. Open back up


12 posted on 04/11/2020 9:30:21 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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By the time they show symptoms they are all infected. Really cannot afford us all being sick at same time.


13 posted on 04/11/2020 9:30:51 AM PDT by Raycpa
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Put the high risk workers together in one area, make sure there is enough room between desks and make sure people wear masks walking around offices. Or, you can make sure there is enough HCQ in your city and just go for it.


14 posted on 04/11/2020 9:31:18 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Queen Fancy Nancy Of North Poopistan)
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That’s ridiculous

You gonna hire a full time sanitation crew to clean those ??


15 posted on 04/11/2020 9:31:18 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Get rid of open offices, meetings, and for heaven’s sake stop with the team-building exercises!


16 posted on 04/11/2020 9:33:17 AM PDT by Overtaxed (Ephesians 6:12)
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Cubicles RETURN!


17 posted on 04/11/2020 9:34:28 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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make sure people wear masks walking around offices

I wonder what the best masks for comfort vs effectiveness is?

18 posted on 04/11/2020 9:34:40 AM PDT by Raycpa
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stop with the team-building exercises

Except for me all women in the office. Only the strong survive. No team-building needed.

19 posted on 04/11/2020 9:36:12 AM PDT by Raycpa
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Have a feeling the second wave of gov’t shutdown will be the courts not alLowing the country to open up based on some lawsuits.


20 posted on 04/11/2020 9:37:12 AM PDT by teevolt
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