wow, Jesse!

That's a big commitment this far in advance, but doesn't speak well to the understanding of vaccine development and virus containment.

My office announced that we won't be re-opening the physical office until some time in August (originally scheduled for next week). There had been plans to increase staff, putting us all closer together ... but with the social distancing and a decrease in income, I think that's off the board. The PTB are looking at moving - they're not happy with the building (ironically, it was a major improvement over the previous building) so we'll see what happens.

I know several lawyer friends who will not be working in the office 5 days a week any time soon. Some of their firms are looking at decreasing office space and some are looking at moving offices out of city center high rent areas.

Sadly my office will be going back to in-office work in 2 weeks, but with a one week on 2 weeks off model. Sadly, not all departments are being so accommodating and are requesting support staff back in at full-time every day. I wish their would be more top-down enforcement of at LEAST 50% work from home time in any pay period, but that seems unlikely.

One week on/two weeks off would drive me nuts, because I would want to bring my monitor etc back and forth every time.

I think for us, they have realized that the vast majority of the necessary work is getting done. And I don't know whose requirement this is (not the State), but we're working with only 10% capacity for the time being, so after training and testing and etc., a few more people could go in, but not more than a few at this point.

THE GARAGE DOOR IS WORKING!! - remotes are programmed. Keypad is programmed.

Woooo!

Hooray garage door!

It has filtered through the grapevine that our Managing Director "does not mind people working from home", which is good. How long we will be doing what we are doing (people are allowed in the office 1 week out of two but can work from home any and all of the time if they prefer (except for the warehouse who has been doing the whole temp checks and distancing thing since March and no one has gotten sick yet, fingers crossed that that continues!)) is anyone's guess. My boss's boss's guess is the rest of 2020.

You know what are good? Apricots.

msbelle - My dad was a contractor who was notorious for calling any subcontractors who did not show by 6:30 in the morning. Mind you this was back in the days of landlines and usually one phone in the house, so he got to wake up the whole household because someone was a little late. He enjoyed it. Just a suggestion for your electrician.

Yeah I have several friends that have been told they're working from home at least for the rest of the year.

Yay garage door!!

That's a big commitment this far in advance, but doesn't speak well to the understanding of vaccine development and virus containment.

What do you mean, Suela? That we would have a vaccine before next June, so they'd want people back in the office? Or just that we'd be able to have it more contained by then? Because I would definitely not be holding my breath on a vaccine being both approved and actually available to everyone by then. I mean maybe. But even with speedy trials and approval I have my doubts on how quickly they'll be able to produce enough vaccine for everyone who would need/want it. And while some places are doing ok on containment obviously a lot aren't and our state borders are completely porous.

Jim's company hasn't announced a formal end date to WFH - right now it's "If you need to be in the office, you can sign up for one of the limited spots in some of the locations".

My dad was a contractor who was notorious for calling any subcontractors who did not show by 6:30 in the morning. Mind you this was back in the days of landlines and usually one phone in the house, so he got to wake up the whole household because someone was a little late. He enjoyed it.

I admire his confidence in none of his subcontractors having a spouse or significant other skilled at body disposal.

Guess who scheduled a grocery pick-up for this afternoon under the mistaken assumption that it would be a slow day?

Our current plan is 1 week in, 1 week WFH, but they haven't figured out a start date. So for now we're just continuing the current plan: WFH if it's practical, come into the office (with masks, some distancing, temp checks) if it's not.