Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by falcolas on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:28PM (#24413646)

Extended families have been isolating together since the beginning; Never were families discourages from isolating together.

Visiting with friends (groups under 10 people) while following safe interaction guidelines was also not discouraged.

EDIT: This is from the point of view of someone in the US; international laws vary as pointed out by replies.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by mattlondon on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:39PM (#24413774)

> Never were families discourages from isolating together.

False - at least in the UK different households were not permitted to mix. So if grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins/etc lived in a different residence, well that is different households and no mixing was allowed. There goes a huge source of a lot of people's adhoc/emergency childcare options.

No mixing of groups of any size was allowed either.

There was some relaxing of this, but now we are seeing a second spike as obviously nothing has changed so people are back to infecting each other.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by jen20 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:46AM (#24417228)

There was apparently an exception for mobile optician substitutes, however!

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by christinamltn on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:44PM (#24413839)

It most certainly was for quite a while where I am (Ontario, Canada). For months we were told to only be in close proximity to those we already lived with. IIRC it was 2 steps on the "start to relax recommendations" path before a group of 10 was permissible.

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