First they banned all travel to China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.
In addition they banned all our Asia-Pac partners from commuting to their offices and implemented the Work from Home business continuity plan for everyone in Asia/Pacific.
Then the news about Italy broke, and travel to Europe from North America was banned. Travel within Europe was approved for European Partners only however it was highly scrutinized and had to be for "very important business purposes only."
The following Monday, all travel within Europe was banned.
Two days after travel within Europe was banned, all travel within the United States was banned.
Last Wednesday, those of us in the Chicago area who work from different offices were all instructed we could no longer commute between offices to do our jobs. I work primarily out of a far western suburban office and occasionally commute into Chicago (yeah, I know ... "Chicago") to meet with business partners and fellow IT folks.
This morning at 1:26am our CTO sent an email to all US IT folks (that includes me ....) that he's instituted the Business Continuity Work From Home plan and we are all to work from home until the end of March.
This has all transpired in roughly the past two and a half weeks.
The absolute INSANITY and panic this stupid Wuhan Virus (let's call it what it is!) is wreaking on everything and all common sense has completely flown out the window. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Thanks for the detailed update.
Ok. Nothing you or I can do about it.
I will bet dollars to donuts that some HR person whined to your legal staff.
We live in a litigious society. No one is going to take the chance of getting someone sick.
I don’t agree with it. But that’s where we live.