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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Red Squirrel:
Heard that they are close to getting us to work from home. Still though it's taking quite a while to get setup properly. This should have been done like 2 months ago. They have the softphone working and the licensing all figured out, now they just need to figure out how to transfer the programming from our physical sets. They also had to order special headsets, since you can't just use any headset with the software. So yeah this could still be a while I think. By the time it's all done this pandemic will be over. I think that's what they are secretly hoping. They don't like the idea of people working from home.
Bud:
Do not worry, it is coming to your hometown
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-police-arrest-covid-19-1.5505349
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-warns-businesses-social-distancing-1.5505439
rdl:
They seem to be taking it seriously here. Schools are closed until mid April at the earliest. Every major college has postponed graduations. The few stores I've been in had blue tape on the floor at the checkouts marking "safe social distance". When I was at the pharmacy Thursday, every other seat in the waiting area was marked as "unavailable".
The apartment complex where I live now keeps the office doors locked and are running on an appointment only basis and even then they meet in the clubhouse and talk across the room. All maintenance postponed indefinitely except where resident safety or potential property damage is a concern.
boffin:
A funny side effect of hundreds of thousands of people working from home is that there's been a run on webcams. Go onto Amazon, BestBuy, etc and try and find one for a reasonable price/delivery date
james_s:
I still don't see what they're going to do, the current situation is unsustainable, I happened to read an article today suggesting that the lockdowns and social distancing may need to go on for a year or more but I don't see that working out, sooner or later more and more people will decide they'd rather risk death than be imprisoned in their own home and there's no way we can sustain having millions of people forced out of their livelihood for that long. Even after a couple of weeks of this people are going to start to get very restless. I suspect that under the best of conditions we'll slow down the spread slightly while committing economic suicide, beyond that it's just going to come down to nature doing what it does, a bunch of people will die, most will not, that's just life. Unless we achieve either herd immunity through the natural process or come up with an effective vaccine likely to take a year or more, I don't think the virus is just going to go away, I would guess it will start spreading again as soon as controls are relaxed. Guess we'll see.
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