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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
microherb:
--- Quote from: james_s on April 09, 2020, 04:47:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on April 08, 2020, 08:02:40 pm --- If I was the guy's boss I would terminate him immediately. He's putting everyone that he works with in jeoparty and his actions could potentially lead the collapse of that business.
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Depending on the local laws that might be a very bad idea. Having a party during a pandemic is stupid but what he does on his own time is none of his employer's business from a legal standpoint. You can't fire someone for getting sick, and it's a slippery slope if we allow people to fire someone for engaging in risky behavior outside of the office. I mean where do you draw the line? I've picked up cold and flu viruses many times in my life without having been to a party.
I think it's perfectly reasonable during this time to require someone to stay home if you suspect they may have been exposed but really there's no way to tell. It's entirely possible and even statistically likely that the guy who had the party is not infected. Likewise my partner's brother recently became ill with symptoms suggesting Covid and he has been following all the rules, working from home full time and only leaving the house to buy food. It's a numbers game, you can reduce your chances of getting sick but it's virtually impossible to prevent it entirely.
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Well, I spoke to the boss about it this morning and he understood completely. He spoke with my co-worker and he has been moved out of my office (will see how long it lasts). I know it is unlikely the guy actually has the virus but the fact that he is ignoring the social distancing laws we have here in Australia makes it statistically much more likely he could get infected and thus it increases everyone else's risk that need to work with him. At least he's been moved away from me and other staff. I'm not sure anything more can really be done legally.
microherb:
--- Quote from: hwj-d on April 09, 2020, 09:38:25 am ---Oh my god, i'm not alone ...
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Clearly not alone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=4vHx-UyIM9M&feature=emb_logo
Electro Detective:
Re: Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Working From Home is all well and good,
and as long as there's an ample supply of dunny paper to keep the show on the road
BUT is anyone actually making MONEY to pay the bills?
and is there real confidence that there will still be a wage to return to, or business to resume,
once Corona has left the building,
and all the other modern viri and old world maladies come back to have another go :-//
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on April 09, 2020, 10:20:37 am ---Re: Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Working From Home is all well and good,
and as long as there's an ample supply of dunny paper to keep the show on the road
BUT is anyone actually making MONEY to pay the bills?
and is there real confidence that there will still be a wage to return to, or business to resume,
once Corona has left the building,
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We can't wait for that. With a mix of testing, tracking (apps), keeping distance + hygiene and rotating shifts of who is going to the office when it should be possible to normalize operations. As I wrote before the experts (the real ones) think that we'll need to keep up distancing for at least another year.
Currently we are in damage control & regrouping mode. That needs to change into going into the offensive mode (well prepared & equipped). Over here some shops are re-opening again after making modifications.
EEVblog:
Thread cleaned up.
BD137 and others, quit derailing this thread.
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