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A comment on Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home”. Parent comment

Re:Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees glob... by geofft on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:45PM (#22470736)
Telling people to work from home isn't necessarily of benefit if they're still out and about in the evenings, and most people don't have a few weeks of food stocked at home. If the cost is minimal but so is the benefit, there's not much point - your CEO may as well tell everyone to eat oranges and get enough vitamin C on "why not" grounds.

Saying "Prepare to not leave your house at all for two weeks, and we'll give you a couple days off to prepare but get on the VPN once you've quarantined yourself" would be of much more benefit, but it's much more disruptive.

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Re:Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees glob... by eli on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:52PM (#22470777)
Yeah but it decreases the odds of a whole office getting sick at once, which seems like worst case
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Re:Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees glob... by catlas3r on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:17PM (#22471255)
The employer has no legal way to mandate that. That said, if it were consistent with generally accepted recommendations from the government, and my employer was not just allowing but encouraging that recommendation, I probably would comply voluntarily.
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