What measures, if any, are your workplaces taking?

[bilboraggins]

Curious to know the types of organisations and different measures.

I work for a corporate and UK travel has stopped and all external meetings have to be changed to teleconferences.

My husband also works for a corporate and they have dotted hand sanitizer all over the office but no other measures yet

Both still expected in the office as usual

Literally zero. Not even communication.

It’s all very “we’ll carry on until we’re told otherwise”. It’s like sitting in a burning building until the fire alarm goes off.

We expect people to wash their hands and take laptops home.

That's it.

We are following government advice.

Also in a university in a very international department and in a student facing office. Absolutely no measures whatsoever. Requests for hand sanitiser have been resoundingly pooh-poohed.

Following the Government advice that unless you’ve been to a restricted area it’s business as usual.

Our head office is closed for three weeks, along with many others in King County, Washington. I am a home worker do it doesn’t affect me. I will carry on working along with the other home workers. Everyone else has to either take paid or unpaid leave or file a temporary unemployment claim as a lay-off with the state.

It’s like sitting in a burning building until the fire alarm goes off.

Its really not. The alarm is the 'somethings different', as of yet the alarm hasnt sounded for corona.

Further education college - told to make sure contact details are updated so can advise of closure (if necessary). My team have started cleaning the desks and keyboards after each use as we are the exams department so lots of users each day. Waiting for exam boards to release info for gcse and a level exams.

50% of staff work from home and 50% in the office. I work in Canary Wharf and most people I know have similar arrangements. I went to Waterstones and bought lots of books for my working from home week😀

Massive big email sent with lots of instructions

Some liquid soap and some bars of soap in toilets in school and I have a poster to put in my classroom! Woo!

Civil Service. I have laptop and will be working from home except for any essential need to go into the office. Otherwise staying put with line managers blessing.

What kind of instructions @Random18 as long as you don't mind sharing/not outing?

Large global organisation. APAC has been working from home since the start and cannot do any f2f meetings. Locally we now have extra hand sanitizer, wipes and handwash and notices everywhere. Today we were told all travel is suspended until further notice, even between sites, and any necessary interviews need to be by video. I know that work is under way to enable more people to work from home and I've confirmed that I will be doing so for the foreseeable. We are getting updates from the execs every couple of days about it so I think the US offices are similar.

Lots of crisis meetings and contingency planning but no physical changes yet.

My husband is off to Spain for a business trip next week. Gets back Friday morning. His employer has told him not come into work until Tuesday as he has to self isolate for 2 working days. WTF? If they think there's a risk he'll get infected, don't bloody send him. And what's the point of a 2 working days quarantine? Idiots.

NHS office based - few posters up about hand washing, told to start taking laptops home every night and that’s about it. Carry on as normal. No extra precautions, hand sanitizer etc - quite rightly that’s all being directed to frontline staff.

I work for a university. So far all travel to China is banned and other international travel needs to be ‘necessary’. No restrictions on U.K. travel yet, and no restrictions on events/open days etc.

@BritWifeinUSA - that's got to be so tough for people with limited funds.

I was spitting feathers at a news report here that was smuggly saying 'SSP will now be paid from day 1 '

SSP is something like £18 per day - hardly a good replacement for a salary

Retail logistics, statement put out yesterday. Upping the cleaning across the company, both customer facing and behind scenes(where I am). Apparently will be giving out handgel but I don't think they realised there wasn't any left so no chance!
We are allowed ssp from day 1 of sickness if we have been to a category 1 country(Iran, Italy etc). Anyone else can use their company sick pay if they're entitled(I'm new so I am not). I'm the only earner in the home so I will be working regardless 🙄

Teacher. We’ve talked to the children about hand washing.

No hand-shaking.

Cancelled going on training courses - subscribed for online training instead to do in the office or home.

Minimising meetings - now on an "essential only" basis.

Home working where possible.

Cleaner coming in twice as often.

@bbcessex yes, welcome to the USA. I actually get more annual leave than most people here (22 days per year - most only get 5 or 10, and 10 is usually after several years of service). We have no sick pay (have to use annual leave unless it’s the day before or after a federal holiday in which case you are completely unpaid) and almost all states have the law of “employment at will” which means no notice period either side. So some of my colleagues were told yesterday that it was their last day for three weeks and “here is the website you need to file a claim for temporary unemployment”. The building is locked up. They can’t go to work even if they want to.

The way employees are treated in America is discusting.

I truly hope I am very wrong here but I have a feeling once this is all over, the crazy precautions we took as individuals and as corporations will seem completely inadequate and the motto failure to prepare is preparing to fail will ring in our ears for years to come.

BAU is extremely careless, companies doing the bare minimum will be called out once it’s too late.