Do you have to wear a mask at work?

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Anyone else? I have to wear one all day except when eating (obvs)...

Yes,

NHS. As others - completely unfused about a surgical face masks now.

Less keen on the only FFP3 that fits my face which is a reusable designed for the construction industry and very difficult to communicate while wearing & gives me pressure sores on my nose. I spend a lot of my clinical working life doing AGPs so wear it a lot.

Yes, nurse here. I wear a surgical mask unless I’m doing an aerosol generated procedure and have to upgrade to the FFP3.

No - not allowed to!

Yes. I've got to the stage now we're I feel odd without it on.

I was made redundant during COVID so I’m not working but DP is a carpenter. He wears masks anyway due to dust but he wears a variety of masks during the day. The only time he doesn’t is if he’s in his office.

Yes. So, so bored of eejits complaining about having to wear them for shops and school runs. We've been at-all-times for months and after a few days you get so used to it, it feels weird when not wearing one.

I’m wfh but if I need to go into the office I have to wear one at all times unless eating/drinking. I don’t go into the office much anymore!

Yes, since March. Learning disabilities nurse/ support worker abroad. We started off in a choice of surgical or community masks but have FFP3 now.

Yes, frontline NHS. Like others have said, I feel weird without one when I take it off to come home. I’ve tried to eat my lunch and forgotten I’ve got it on until the spoon meets resistance at the mask!

Yes, takeaway- have to wear a mask and apron and change gloves/wash hands minimum 20 times a day

Yes - NHS. Dont have to wear when alone and stationary at desk or alone in a room doing videocall with a patient

Not mandatory but managers are encouraged to wear them most of the time. Nearly always in meetings unless only 2 people in a huge room.

Work in a kind of distribution warehouse which is in operation 24/7 with hundreds of colleagues in the building most of the time but it's a huge area.

Always being reminded about social distancing. Sanitiser, masks and gloves very readily available.

Colleagues who deal with the public have to wear them when actually doing so.

No, unless we have customers in the office.

I have my own office so don’t need a mask and when seeing customers face to face we have a customer room with a protective screen so we can take masks off once in there

Our factory is huge, so social distancing is not a problem so we don’t make them wear masks - each member of staff has their own screened off area so they don’t mix on the shop floor

Sorry, pressed send too soon

Masks, soap and hand sanitizer always available, we have staggered their lunch breaks and we’ve provided a couple of covered areas (roofs, but open sides) outside

No. I'm a dog walker.

Yes. Paediatric nurse. My student and I both had Covid last week.

Yes. But I have for the last 25 years

it’s no biggie

Yep. Work in a supermarket, really didn't like it at first and got really warm from them and often got headaches. I'm fine with it now and barely notice it but my skin certainly does, I look like a hormonal teen 😣

Factory. Food manufacturing. Been wearing masks for 4 weeks now.

NHS but desk based, not at desk but I do the rest of the time

Only when seeing clients (solicitors). I have perspex screens round my desk though.

Not at our work stations, but as soon as we get up we have to put them on, eg: to go to talk to someone else or go the the loo.

I have an office (shared with two other people but they're both wfh on the days I'm in). So not when I'm alone in my office, but yes when I'm in a room with other people or moving around the building.

When we are moving around the building and going to other departments. At our desk we dont have to wear them.

I wear a surgical mask, ffp3, or this hood (photo attached). The hood is so noisy that I struggle to hear anything, the belt is fairly heavy and I keep knocking stuff over with the tube at the back, clumsy enough as it is 🤣. The ffp3 makes me feel claustrophobic after an hour. The surgical mask I don't really notice anymore. Annual leave next week .