Google is gonna keep everyone home until July 2021 https://theweek.com/speedreads/927667/google-reportedly-keep-employees-home-another-year
It’s not that they have mastered that but I think it’s an unnecessary risk that they can avoid. These tech companies don’t exactly have 8-5 strict hours first of all, so it’s not a huge barrier to transition to an all remote work. Of course there are a few that do need to come in to the building (ie. to access critical equipments) with many restrictions in place. Flex work and remote work have been trending for tech companies for years prior to covid19. Not all companies and managements are on board or were willing to take a risk and try it. Covid19 forced their hand, compressed and accelerated the schedule for them and most are doing just fine. When this is all over and norm is back, I think many employee will want to continue the remote work or at least the option for it and I think employer will grant it based on their positive experience. As for a return to norm - not going to happen until there is eff treatments or vaccine. Companies know this. (gov not so much; these companies have been 2-3 steps ahead of the fed gov) source: I work in the industry
depends on the size of the busn and if they really can shut down the buildings If there are still some folks that need to come in for critical equipment to busn, cleaning staff have a higher work load for routine sanitizing... Outside of cleaning staff, building still needs to be maintained, with or without people there. in the future, there is less buildings if remote work become more of a norm - without building then yes, no more cleaning and maintenance workers
For a company to forgo even the hope of having its workers come into the office for the next year shows it has a great deal of confidence that it can maintain a high enough level of productivity with an entirely remote workforce. That's incredible.
From my experience, I don’t think productivity will drop that much. There is a chance it actually increase. Productivity in an environment where you must maintain 6ft separation, wear mask all day, still have no in person meeting, and other health requirements and restrictions WILL suffer. So I think it’s actually a fairly easy choice to maintain remote work until there is some semblance of normalcy in the physical office, which is dependent on effective treatments or vaccine.
Yes that all may be, but for a company to embrace flex work on this scale is unprecedented and against corporate culture which has traditionally frowned on those seeking to work from home.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/07/28/facebook-post-with-nazi-imagery-leads-to-gop-resignation Facebook post with Nazi imagery leads to GOP resignation Brian Bakst St. Paul July 28, 2020 2:15 p.m. A local Republican Party official resigned from a post Tuesday after a Facebook post that compared Minnesota’s new mask mandate to Nazi Germany. For a time, the Facebook page of the Wabasha County Republican Party showed a black-and-white photo of a Nazi soldier talking to a man wearing a Star of David. A caption likened the star that became a Holocaust emblem to the coronavirus mask precautions. After initially suggesting the local party page had been hacked, Minnesota Republican Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan said that a review found the post originated by a Wabasha GOP board member. In a statement, Carnahan said the unidentified activist has resigned. “We are saddened by the vitriolic post and hope as we move forward that Republicans and Democrats alike will maintain the highest level of integrity, respect, and sensitivity,” Carnahan said. “The Wabasha County Board and MN GOP apologizes for this disappointing post." State DFL Party officials said it wasn’t an isolated incident. They pointed to legislative candidates who drew similar comparisons in social media posts “I’m calling on the Republican Party of Minnesota to renounce the use of this rhetoric and sanction candidates and local units that persist in leveling these disgraceful attacks,” DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said in a written statement. “Leaders of the Minnesota Republican Party must recognize the radicalizing effect their words are having and the real, physical harm that could cause the people of Minnesota.” The Wabasha GOP’s post followed a weekend incident in Marshall, where a couple wore swastika masks into a Walmart to buy groceries on the first day of the state face covering mandate. Video of an encounter between that couple and other shoppers made national news.
Trump talking about Fauci approval ratings ..twice in the press conference. He is complaining they(Fauci and Brix) have high ratings but he does not. He doesn't understand why.. I am scratching my head , why does that does even matter!!
Texas' uninsured rate has been climbing along with its unemployment rate as COVID-19 cases surge in the state. Before the pandemic, Texas already had the highest rate and largest number of people without health insurance in the country. And 20 percent of all uninsured children in the U.S. live in Texas. This year the coverage gap in Texas has only gotten worse: 29 percent of Texas adults under 65 don't currently have health insurance, according to recent data from Families USA, a consumer health advocacy group that supports the Affordable Care Act. The group found about 659,000 people in the state lost their coverage between February and May, as job losses soared. Texas is one of 13 states that has not expanded Medicaidunder the ACA.
it’s unprecedented but not unusually (and I believe a hard but yet also easy choice) given an unprecedented failure of containment of the virus in the US to date combined with a lack of infrastructure tools for government, companies, school and individual to return to some level of normalcy... or to re-open.
