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.
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.
You can go a bit further...with disposable masks and gloves. Everyone wipes their place down when they come in...and when they leave.
Always make sure you have the receipt when returning anything.
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.
What kind of business? How are their work spaces arranged now?
I’m kinda partial to the fishbowl over your head as freeper Geronimo suggest.
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.
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
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.
Get rid of open offices, meetings, and for heaven’s sake stop with the team-building exercises!
Cubicles RETURN!
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.
Suggest working with a skeleton staff while the rest work from home, if possible. Rotate staff so no one gets stuck being one or the other. Swap skeleton crew members for variety’s sake. Begin bringing more people into the office as the weeks go by until you have the mix you want.
Practice good social distance discipline in the office. If you have a break room, only one person in it at a time. Don’t bring in treats to share unless they are individually wrapped.
Have people stay home if they feel ill. Masks and gloves are your call. People now wonder about the need to shake hands.
I’m not as fearful of corona’ as there are a lot of things out there that will get you and nobody worries about them at all. But taking the normal precautions you would for the flu—and practicing them diligentky—should set you up pretty well.
Just my opinion! Worth what you paid for it! :-)
Past owner of two small businesses. Never liked cubicles. Too many distractions and ways to pass on the flu, colds, etc. Rationale was higher productivity and fewer sick days.
Shift one works W,Th,F, off the weekend, M, T - then shift two follows to work the same schedule. Anyone in a risk category or at threat of exposure stays home and does what they can through telecommuting.
We're essential communication workers so we've been following this for weeks now and will continue until the quarantine is lifted.
A VPN.
“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.”
That’s a HR nightmare and if a company splits groups into high and low risk the will be inviting lawsuits.