I assume many places will be instituting work from home policies soon. Anybody preemptively working from home right now due to the virus?
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I assume many places will be instituting work from home policies soon. Anybody preemptively working from home right now due to the virus?
Mods please move this thread to the Coronavirus sub-forum.
I work at a dealership. Work from home will never happen in this trade. Hell, even when your sick or break your leg, they be asking if your coming in the next day or not....and theres been no mention of any new cleaniless policies regarding Covid19.
I'm in Fixed Ops. So on that side, I do see less appointments and people servicing their cars than usual. But that could be also due to economy, people are broke after Christmas, vacation season. Jan/Feb are always our slowest months. Should start ramping up soon when people bring out their AMGs...
I'm working in the Suncor building, it's pretty much all everyone's been talking about today.
My company told us we can all wfh if we want to... not too many people are so far, but I expect that to change. Nothing mandated yet.
I like the idea of a company getting employees to work from home for a day just to make sure they can get everything running properly at home if needed.
I saw this came from the daycare in Suncor
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Mods please create a Coronavirus sub-forum or declare this man to be senile.
I am on the west end of DT, just today one of our VP's went around ensuring we all have our VPN access set up properly in case we decide to work from home
ES I can’t believe you booked me for a coffee right by that death trap of a building
Haha
We actually got banned from going to either Eau Claire or the Suncor building. No non essential travel. And we have a town hall this morning on some topic. Wondering if we get permission to largely work from home which would be awesome.
Honestly with all the hysteria around this flu my sarcasm detector is broken.
I can’t tell what is an over or under response anymore.
Does anyone see the irony in holding a townhall right now? Could it not be an email?? haha
Some guy that sits next to me just spent 3 weeks in India (and I'm not sure where between here and there) and is back in the office on his first day back. This is why this shit is spreading so fast.
A lot of people work from home anyways(where I work/Insurance). We have to take our laptops home daily so if a event occurs, we can still function.
There are contingency plans, but in a nutshell.... Don't come in and log in from home.
We are a pretty small shop lol, our town hall is likely fewer people than the average big co water cooler line. We are welcome to call in if we desire.
Dunno apparently there was a report of an infection at Eau Claire, which happens to be quite close to us. I just know what I’m told.
Love working from home, but i'm wondering if the masses getting sent home could be a double edged sword. Companies realize it works, and decided they no longer need the expense of office space, emptying DT even further :thumbsdow
We are speeding up VPN deployments and expanding bandwidth as needed.
Rule are set up on when to punt someone from office to work from home but 1 employee already got sent home on a 3rd degree connection (friend of friend's family member confirmed).
How much are your rates? I hear you are handsome. Is this your agent?
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No preemptive policies that I know of. Someone left for Vietnam yesterday for vacation. I don't want to be in the office when he gets back.
Typical CNRL
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...rray-1.5494007
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Coronavirus link sends 130 oilsands workers back to Edmonton after 3-hour impasse
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In the video, the crew member apologizes for the wait before saying, "Supposedly, somebody was indirectly in contact with a presumptive coronavirus patient."
"The crew member was made aware of the person's positive test result only after they had operated a flight for one of our Alberta charter clients."
The crew member also says he was told the risk to those on board was low, but Alberta Health, CNRL and Canadian North management were discussing what to do.
"They didn't want me to tell anybody anything and finally I said, 'Someone's got to know something.' So this is me trying to put you at ease," the crew member says on the video "There's no … very low risk."
Officials had been informed that a crew member reported being in close contact with someone who had later tested positive for coronavirus, Valin said.
The passenger said when the plane returned to Edmonton, "Nobody from Alberta Health met our plane and little information was shared about self-quarantine, etc."
The passenger said the entire event seemed "cavalier and nonsensical" because all of the "potentially-infected workers" were sent to the work site the next day.
my workplace said that working form home is now an option if you would like to take it. Boss figures that in the next week or two confirmed cases will skyrocket and that the entire company (12 people) will be working from home so we are now setting up laptops for this event.
No clue how this effects our field staff or our Nisku shop but thank goodness for breakup and rigs shutting down I guess
Our DT crew all working from home for the rest of the week.
Our office is in BVS
Not sure if someone already answered but an employee at the garage in Eau Claire tested positive.
https://i.redd.it/gw6qfav2j9m41.png
Heard rumor that Enmax has a no wage on isolation policy, anyone can confirm?
Our office is having a conference call today to decide whether we work from home or no, and I reckon today or tomorrow will be my last day in the office for a week or two.
So an employee of a restaurant in Eau Claire has it, was working March 3-7. Unconfirmed reporter tweet.
https://twitter.com/SammyHudes/statu...33441746669568
It’s not vacancy if people are still paying rent
We have switched to a rotating 50% of people work from home to decrease density downtown.
Essentially maintain a rotating skeleton screw in the office, also acts as a stress test for our IT infra in case we move to 0% in the office.
This shit is going to kill a lot of small businesses... How the fuck is a tire store supposed to operate from home? I still haven't figured it out.
There is a reason the vast majority of those fail miserably... In well over 30 years in this business I have seen them come and go constantly over the decades. Too much investment for too little work that doesn't pay enough, and especially in this case, too short term of an escalated need to be realistic.
Nahh... The people that would mostly die are not customers of mine. They are the ones who just take up needed hospital beds in the short term trying to drag out a little more time.
Please note... It isn't my plan. It is natures plan. I just recognize the result. It doesn't mean it is pleasant. Just reality.
I am in Bow Valley and have an office in Suncor..
Apparently 98 kids in the Suncor daycare.. so have to think at least 98 adults being exposed in Suncor... times however many people they come in contact with. Even just seeing how many kids push the buttons in the elevator in the morning and afternoon.
Heard a rumor that at least 200 people were sent home and the building may be closed later today... this is getting ugly.
I literally don't have a computer at home new enough to install Citrix.
2006 iMac.
Can't afford anything now that investments have all but disappeared.
"Abundance of caution" translates to "Keep coming into work until one of you catches something on the filthy public transit, then we will ask a few of you to self isolate even though we recognize that you all touch the same coffee machine, door knobs, and defecate in the same sinks because the government says that we are very low risk".
I want a 14 pack of Corona for self isolation that includes an ‘I survived 14 days of Conona.’ t-shirt.
Suncor building evacuated is what I have heard.
I got a 2010 imac for cheap ;)
https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/411...96#post4852996
Cool, heard that in the hallway.
we have a meeting at 2:30 (online meeting) to plan for everyone to work from home (Small Accounting Company).
I wonder if Omi had a line up today
Ceilis was packed
I am curious as to who's company is paying for self isolation?
We have a number of employees currently on vacation, or about to go (although many of these are reconsidering) and we are considering making them stay home for a week to see if they end up with any symptoms. We have a policy of only 5 paid sick days and are struggling with how generous we want to be with extra days. Plus our hourly field guys don't get any paid days normally.
We have the same problem as many places were some people may be able to work from home, but not all. So far we have just cut down on meetings in boardrooms and in person and posted proper hand washing and sneeze and cough etiquette signs basically everywhere. lol
We also have the cleaners spending additional time every day to sanitize surfaces. Not sure how much of a difference that will make, but it worked to calm down some of the more panicked staff.
I would appreciate any other ideas though.
Curious about this too.. have some friends in San Diego coming back soon who just received calls from their work place informing them to stay home for 2 weeks...
Both haven't received clarification on whether it is unpaid/ paid
Received notice today about this. Self isolation is on your vacation or leave of absence. Odd they don't say if you actually have the disease that you can use sick time, but maybe that's implied?
Of course you can work from home if self isolating and many of us can, but if they close schools and I have to self isolate, good luck with that.
Should it not fall under short term disability? Since you can't perform the duties of your job?
We had to take a questionnaire to see if we are set up to work from home, and our offices are apparently getting sanitized daily. Nothing more than that as of yet.
I'm going to Hawaii in April so if I get stuck there I won't be too upset haha.