Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by ghaff on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:16PM
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I assume your company has travel policies in effect? I mostly work from home anyway but, if I were in an office and traveled to a country that wasn't on my company's self-quarantine list, I'd assume I was expected to go into the office. If your company didn't have Italy on their list (and it maybe should be) that's for your travel department to make decisions on not an individual traveler.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by mk89 on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:28PM
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Italy wasn't yet on the list, indeed. However, nobody prevents you from sharing it and saying "I am going for a check up". His manager wouldn't have minded at all.
Also, sometimes it's just reading the f news. It's a global thing, everybody want it or not knows about this virus.
Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by ghaff on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:33PM
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Fair enough, I would probably have asked my manager (who probably would have known I was in Italy). We do have APAC travel policies in place. Not sure about other countries. But if I were in the situation where I was coming back from Italy I would probably have asked (as an exempt employee who could work from home anyway) if I should self-quarantine out of caution. I would probably not have gone for a check-up if I felt fine. It's up to HR/Travel of course but things are moving quickly.