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IT development at a logistics company.
Honestly, nothing's really changed. Unless someone from the my specific office gets sick, it'll probably be business as usual. But they did mention that they're gonna beef up the global company VPN, so who knows.
Honestly, nothing's really changed. Unless someone from the my specific office gets sick, it'll probably be business as usual. But they did mention that they're gonna beef up the global company VPN, so who knows.
I'm a pest control technician. Haven't heard a thing from anyone up the chain of command about it and probably won't unless the insects and rodents start getting the virus themselves. Constant handwashing is a given as we work with poisons all day so buisness as usual for now
I do web development ultimately under the Department of Defense. We're looking at possible telework.
Ebook sales are down, but not to the point where we should panic.
I think it will pick back up once people settle in to their quarantine.
I think it will pick back up once people settle in to their quarantine.
Casino industry (bartender/bar back) and at mine they ain't doing shit. They've basically sent an email with hand washing instructions and let you know that the current callout policy is still in place (i.e. I'd get a point for each day I called out sick).
As far as business is going it's pretty bad. Barely anyone showing up to gamble or drink. I worked day shift at a bar yesterday and had two customers. That said it's been raining here in SoCal so it might be that which is causing low turnout.
I spend some time at the larger casino down the street and they sent out an email saying that they were deep cleaning the whole place with hospital grade disinfectant and would have staff routinely cleaning throughout the day. My work is too cheap to do that.
As far as business is going it's pretty bad. Barely anyone showing up to gamble or drink. I worked day shift at a bar yesterday and had two customers. That said it's been raining here in SoCal so it might be that which is causing low turnout.
I spend some time at the larger casino down the street and they sent out an email saying that they were deep cleaning the whole place with hospital grade disinfectant and would have staff routinely cleaning throughout the day. My work is too cheap to do that.
Ad operations and ad serving. Company were conducting VPN capability tests all last week, and gave the word today that all US employees are to WFH until the 27th. Longer depending on the situation then
Software Implementation Consulting. No change yet, we're able to work where ever we want. No change needed. They'd just tell me not to come in... in which case I'm one of the few who do come in as it is.
But it will be interesting to see how the market goes for us. I'm expecting cuts... but since we are full mobile as it is and work with extremely propriety software. Could get more in the long run.
But it will be interesting to see how the market goes for us. I'm expecting cuts... but since we are full mobile as it is and work with extremely propriety software. Could get more in the long run.
As of today I'm working from home. My wife is a medical provider and I feel Ike it's my responsibility to stay well, so she can stay as well as possible. The reverse is also true. If she gets it, I'll get it, and I don't want to infect my office.
Got mucho food (probably 2 months worth), as I always keep a backup amount. I'm also a big camper, so I have portable solar panels, gas stoves, water filters, etc, but I doubt I'll need that!
Got mucho food (probably 2 months worth), as I always keep a backup amount. I'm also a big camper, so I have portable solar panels, gas stoves, water filters, etc, but I doubt I'll need that!
Nothing big with my day job besides being told to work from home, but I tutor kids for the SAT and ACT on evening and weekends (awesome side hustle BTW if anyone is looking for one, pretty easy to make $30+ and you just need to know high school level math) and I've been fielding emails from panicked students and parents for the last couple days. There was supposed to be an SAT this Saturday and most sites are cancelling it. No word yet as to when students will be able to attend a make-up date.
My school district just canceled for the week. I will be doing some online lessons but there's not much else I can do. My students are going to be getting a lot of annoying emails from me with dad jokes. I don't want them to think they can get away from my terrible humor just because they don't have school.
Work in a tertiary care American hospital. Our contingency plan should we run out of ICU ventilators is to convert the operating rooms into makeshift ICU beds, and pretty much cancel all elective surgeries. We're already rationing supplies. I fully expect to start triaging patients (i.e., if a patient is deemed too sick for a valuable ventilator, put him in comfort cares and let him die) in the upcoming months, unless ventilators start magically growing on trees.
I work in engineering research in academia as a grad student. IT stays, experimental scientists stay, computational scientists work from home.
Jewelry company.
There's been a pretty noticeable drop in sales, it makes sense though as they're luxury goods and people are gonna focus on essentials in times of crisis. In the course of 12 hours boss went from "no we are not doing wfh or shutting down, use vacation days if you dont wanna come in" to "don't come in tomorrow, work from home."
There's been a pretty noticeable drop in sales, it makes sense though as they're luxury goods and people are gonna focus on essentials in times of crisis. In the course of 12 hours boss went from "no we are not doing wfh or shutting down, use vacation days if you dont wanna come in" to "don't come in tomorrow, work from home."
Work at a construction recycling business, personally not much since mostly work in IT and management, company wide essentially:
Temporary freeze on non critical asset adquisition
Deployment of hand sanitizer in key areas to enforce the need to wash hands
Handing out of hand sanitizer to truck drivers, same as for the office desks.
Reintruduction of paper towels in the bathroom.
Delay of upcoming formative actions until the next month (to be reevaluated then)
Shifting of lunch hours and locations so there isn't as much overlap of people in the same confined spaces, same with the changing of clothes on the recycling plant.
Tighter control on face masks since the ones we use are FFP2 (same as the ones for coronavirus), so let us just say they saw an unprecedent use in the last few weeks, which is clearly not driven by actual work use.
Changes in the way wages are distributed so there aren't as many people coming into the office.
From an economic perspective we have seen no impact, this year has been absolutely insane with a growth of around 20% yoy (more in some months), coming from a previous year with already 15%, something that has been pretty much impssible to keep up with without overtime from our drivers, since every preparation we do to accomodate more service just gets eaten up, we have even had to resort to increasing prices to try to lower demand, so assuming the economy doesn't crash too hard and for too long, this could give us some respite in that regard.
Temporary freeze on non critical asset adquisition
Deployment of hand sanitizer in key areas to enforce the need to wash hands
Handing out of hand sanitizer to truck drivers, same as for the office desks.
Reintruduction of paper towels in the bathroom.
Delay of upcoming formative actions until the next month (to be reevaluated then)
Shifting of lunch hours and locations so there isn't as much overlap of people in the same confined spaces, same with the changing of clothes on the recycling plant.
Tighter control on face masks since the ones we use are FFP2 (same as the ones for coronavirus), so let us just say they saw an unprecedent use in the last few weeks, which is clearly not driven by actual work use.
Changes in the way wages are distributed so there aren't as many people coming into the office.
From an economic perspective we have seen no impact, this year has been absolutely insane with a growth of around 20% yoy (more in some months), coming from a previous year with already 15%, something that has been pretty much impssible to keep up with without overtime from our drivers, since every preparation we do to accomodate more service just gets eaten up, we have even had to resort to increasing prices to try to lower demand, so assuming the economy doesn't crash too hard and for too long, this could give us some respite in that regard.
My non-profit is dependent on reimbursement for training workforce development candidates, which tend to be lower income people, i.e. people most hurt by surprise expenses like childcare with school out. Which will decrease their turnout in our programs, which decreases our income. So, fun time to be a fundraiser.
Shipping.
Our owner told us to provide hand sanitizer for ever major area of our shop, lysol spray every surface 3 times a day, don't hand or have handed to you anything and that if you get sick go home and we will discuss paid leave. Said he'd cover any gouging prices for sanitizer disinfectants or masks if they are felt to be necessary.
Corporate suggested buying each employee one set of latex gloves...showing how little they pay attention.
Our owner told us to provide hand sanitizer for ever major area of our shop, lysol spray every surface 3 times a day, don't hand or have handed to you anything and that if you get sick go home and we will discuss paid leave. Said he'd cover any gouging prices for sanitizer disinfectants or masks if they are felt to be necessary.
Corporate suggested buying each employee one set of latex gloves...showing how little they pay attention.
I work in an analogous field to you and I just walkef out the door after a 13.5 hour work day.
Things have not been this bad since hurricane Maria ate Puerto Rico in 2017.
My building is adding a seventh day of operation for next week due to product demand.
The photographs I've seen of empty store shelves on Twitter means that this will be a thing for the foreseeable future.
Various companies in my sector, both around us and elsewhere in the country, already closed up shop. Some were kinda forced because they had a positive, others just took this decision for whatever reason. We're still going on for now. I would be surprised if next week went by smoothly as the amount of issues related to suppliers and clients is increasing, even if for now it's not too disrupting. A lot of people have the option to work from home already set up, a person is already doing so.
I work retail. We've added 12 hours of payroll a day specifically for team members to go around disinfecting everything constantly, and do nothing else, with a specific list of the minimum locations. Corporate has guaranteed anyone testing positive two weeks of PTO and will not deduct from sick pay hours already accumulated. Employees are able to wear masks and gloves if they chose so. And certain items have been limited to a maximum per household.
I suspect/hope we'll be unleashing shit-tons of OT soon (normally hourly employees aren't allowed to do over 40) because we are dreadfully understaffed for the obscene spike in traffic. Panic buying has put our daily sales at 4th quarter weekend levels, for what should be one of our slowest times of the year, with less than half the payroll, and with no seasonal employees all the people we're extending are hitting 40. It's literally impossible for us to keep up. At the store level we've already reached peak "fuck it, you get hours and you get hours and you get hours" and it's not enough.
I suspect/hope we'll be unleashing shit-tons of OT soon (normally hourly employees aren't allowed to do over 40) because we are dreadfully understaffed for the obscene spike in traffic. Panic buying has put our daily sales at 4th quarter weekend levels, for what should be one of our slowest times of the year, with less than half the payroll, and with no seasonal employees all the people we're extending are hitting 40. It's literally impossible for us to keep up. At the store level we've already reached peak "fuck it, you get hours and you get hours and you get hours" and it's not enough.
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Well I work at Helsinki-Vantaa airport so it's pretty quiet now after yesterdays new measures by government (strongly urging people to cancel all flights).
I work as a morning producer in the news industry. I don't think I'm gonna get days off but who knows.
I work in the arts sector, huge damage with all performances and events cancelled. All staff gone except me, as I have to deal with all comms from office phone.
Hospital lab tech. We got some new covid19 test collection kits for sending out and I had to do some online info session but otherwise it's same ol same ol. We already gotta act like EVERY specimen we get is extremely contagious with one thing or another so it's just work as usual.
hotel chef
its a matter of time before we shut down at this rate
Marriott doesn't seem to give two shits about offering people extra PTO either, going to get real rough
its a matter of time before we shut down at this rate
Marriott doesn't seem to give two shits about offering people extra PTO either, going to get real rough
Hmm, probably would be good to move tax day out to end of May, take some of that pressure off for tax industry.
I work in medical devices.
1). All meetings (local or travel related) need to be handled via our online meeting platform. No room bookings (and the read between the lines with the dialogue is that you will be looked on with scrutiny if you violate)
2). Work from home when possible, but they acknowledge that some amount of people will still need to be in office/manufacturing.
3) if you are sick stay home and corporate will workout medical/PTO/work from home based on severity.
4) only business critical travel is approved, with approval needing to come from "high up"
1). All meetings (local or travel related) need to be handled via our online meeting platform. No room bookings (and the read between the lines with the dialogue is that you will be looked on with scrutiny if you violate)
2). Work from home when possible, but they acknowledge that some amount of people will still need to be in office/manufacturing.
3) if you are sick stay home and corporate will workout medical/PTO/work from home based on severity.
4) only business critical travel is approved, with approval needing to come from "high up"
Can't really take most of my work home atm since it's in a lab, but we were advised to plan experiments very carefully and only go in to do specific experiments and then leave so as to minimize contact. Also try to do experiments at different times so as to spread out the group more throughout the day. All group meetings canceled until further notice and replaced by informal one on one meetings or email. And, of course, anyone who feels sick or is feeling panicky for any reason was told to just stay home.
If things get worse, we'll start trying to take lab equipment home with us so we can do some experiments at our houses. Luckily, we work with pretty harmless stuff and can do a ton of research with very little in the way of resources.
If things get worse, we'll start trying to take lab equipment home with us so we can do some experiments at our houses. Luckily, we work with pretty harmless stuff and can do a ton of research with very little in the way of resources.
I already worked from home 1-2 days/week, just upped to 5/5.
Company wide they were very late on it, but i was in Milan on the 23th so started that day.
That's the situation in Milan and neighboring cities right now, yep.
Honestly the first thing everyone should do is overdrive the ventilator producing. Shut down all other competing equipment producer - Italy got military in the plants with the best techs they could find to run them as fast as possible.
Company wide they were very late on it, but i was in Milan on the 23th so started that day.
That's the situation in Milan and neighboring cities right now, yep.
Honestly the first thing everyone should do is overdrive the ventilator producing. Shut down all other competing equipment producer - Italy got military in the plants with the best techs they could find to run them as fast as possible.
Telecom company, they really don't want to tell us to work from home. They still want to label the risk as low, even though the main campus is downtown and a good chunk of the workers take public transit.
They'll probably tell us soon to work from home except those people at the call centers. They have been dragging their heels to let call center people work from home for years and now they are not ready to deal with something like this
They'll probably tell us soon to work from home except those people at the call centers. They have been dragging their heels to let call center people work from home for years and now they are not ready to deal with something like this
Medical software development firm...
My boss put up a sign in the bathroom that shows the proper way to wash your hands yesterday that ominously says, "DONT GET COVID-19".
Management has refused to discuss the subject otherwise even when pressed, laughing because, "Oh John come on now, no one's really worried about corona virus around here except you."
We have the technology in place to work from home, but it's never been configured and no one has ever been allowed to ever. It's taboo to even suggest you'd want to work from home.
My boss put up a sign in the bathroom that shows the proper way to wash your hands yesterday that ominously says, "DONT GET COVID-19".
Management has refused to discuss the subject otherwise even when pressed, laughing because, "Oh John come on now, no one's really worried about corona virus around here except you."
We have the technology in place to work from home, but it's never been configured and no one has ever been allowed to ever. It's taboo to even suggest you'd want to work from home.
IT consulting. We now only go to clients as a last resort when remote support won't do it. We've got gloves for handling equipment. We're well set up to work from home in case anyone in the office thinks they got exposed.
I work for JP Morgan Chase(not a branch, but corporate), and yeah, times are definitely interesting. I work remotely, so don't have to worry about going in, but things are proceeding as normal as can be for me and the team I manage. That said, my team does work out of a big city in the north east, and I've instructed them all to work from home for the next 4 weeks.
Was hoping a post like this would go up eventually so I could see if anyone else is here!
I work in Event Marketing, not so much the putting on shows side of things but mostly supporting our sales team going to shows put on by associations.
It's been super rough. I think in the last 3 days alone, combined our departments had 40+ shows all cancel or postpone. It's leaving us with basically nothing to work on for right now. Outside of researching COVID-19 and determining which areas have been impacted the most and looking at shows we have in those areas 🤷♂️
Sales team is also banned from non-essential travel and the company kind of botched the communication. So they're all freaked out even though they're technically still encouraged to do customer-facing events. It's turned us all into therapists.
I work in Event Marketing, not so much the putting on shows side of things but mostly supporting our sales team going to shows put on by associations.
It's been super rough. I think in the last 3 days alone, combined our departments had 40+ shows all cancel or postpone. It's leaving us with basically nothing to work on for right now. Outside of researching COVID-19 and determining which areas have been impacted the most and looking at shows we have in those areas 🤷♂️
Sales team is also banned from non-essential travel and the company kind of botched the communication. So they're all freaked out even though they're technically still encouraged to do customer-facing events. It's turned us all into therapists.
I'm not in events, but I was scheduled to speak at several this spring / summer - all of which have been canned. The people responsible for event operations and marketing, whose email chains I'm sometimes copied in on, are all total wrecks. Which makes sense, given that their livelihood is at stake.
For my part, I'm a writer and consultant who works from home full-time, so aside from losing the aforementioned speaker's fees, my work has been essentially unaffected.
I work at a Canadian University, part of my role is dealing specifically with students at our institution travelling elsewhere on international exchange programs.
It's about as insane as you could expect right at this moment.
It's about as insane as you could expect right at this moment.