What are your work doing?

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Didn't see a thread on this but apologies if there is!

Given that it's become more serious and people are more panicked, what are your work doing?

I work in Central London in finance. People with a cold are not even allowed in and must work from home. Anyone who feels uncomfortable can also work from home. All travel to Italy is banned and there's restrictions on Asian countries.

I personally am not worried at all, but I do love working from home!

What about you?

Civil Service central London. Not allowed to work at home unless for some special reason and one day a week.

I work over 2 or 3 different offices. 1 has signs up telling people to hand wash, sanitiser in the loos. Another has nothing and is filthy, not even basic cleaning. Third has grudgingly said they will put sanitiser on reception and people may be reimbursed for buying their own as central stores have run out.

Incidentally, everyone I work with is set up to work at home and we all have Surface Pros, mobiles and are moving to online telephony.

A message from the Head of the CS was received last week telling us to set an example and keep going to work.

I work in the NHS. Not a front line role that would be caring for pts with COVID 19 as such. So far all our trust has done is send round an email with a link to the trust hand washing policy. Ridiculous really. My role in loves direct patient care so would really like to know what the plans might be for us all to ensure ongoing patient care when things escalate!

I work for a courier company. Not only are they doing nothing, but they have told a driver who has just come back from Italy that he needs to continue working and they have threatened to fire another driver who has been calling in sick with flu like symptoms... bit worrying.

I work in a school - we’ve been told to send any children home if they present with a temperature.

To make sure children are washing their hands more frequently, etc. Nothing has been imposed for staff, yet.

Self employed. No change yet but expect some work to be cancelled or postponed (involves uk travel). I am in London today and tomorrow and thinking of cancelling meetings next weeks and asking grandparents to stand down from helping with grand children... but then does that mean not seeing my parents? Both have well managed respiratory conditions and are in their 70s.

Increased remote working resources, such as bandwidth.

Next two days are wfh days to stress test the systems and ensure they can cope.

Expecting an enforced wfh period within the next couple of weeks.

I work from home but manage volunteers going into schools who are mostly older people (some in their 80s and 90s). My work has sent a flurry of emails going around risk assessing, meanwhile, I've asked for permission to send my volunteers a clear message that they can stay away from schools and feel in no way obligated to go in.

I work in London (and travel internationally for work) - I have just written our guidance for staff. Basically carry on as usual. Follow the advice of UK Govt for UK staff. Follow the advice of FCO in relation to travel. For non-UK staff, they have to follow the advice in their own country of residence.

Work in a London hospital with confirmed cases (although not on my wards). Been fitted for a mask (the proper ones), have PPE equipment in grab bags, been told if exposed to obviously not come in and call 111 and OT immediately. However no restrictions on visitors. Lots of new policies and guidelines are out and having regular hurdles to discuss the issue and protection of patients and staff.

I work in a school. Some one in the local area has it so parents have received a letter to say its low risk and wash hands more...

We are only a very small business and can all work from home a lot anyway. So we have agreed that this is what we will do if things get worse, especially as two of us are in an at risk category.

We are fairly rural and each drive our own cars when we do go to the office as there is no public transport. So exposure to crowds of people doesn't happen and limits things a lot.

I work in a 14 ward mental health hospital so we are all carrying on as normal, just with some more dark humour

I work in Tesco. I'll be there getting shouted at because I won't let someone buy 23 packs of toilet roll and 76 bags of pasta.

I work for NHS and can work from home, but no news. They will stick to what PHE says to the letter.

@dollywilde it will last longer but I do think staying at home in your position is worth it! Might as well if you can do your job at home!

"Business as usual" at the moment.

I am awaiting an occupational health assessment to see whether they consider it safe for me to be exposed to the general public (I have an underlying condition).

It seems likely that if not, I won't be paid. If so, I will still choose not to come in because of the risk so still won't be paid.

Luckily I can't spend much money while at home in lock-down!

@thebearsbunny omg I can't believe that!!

Public sector emergency response.

We are limiting events of more than 50, discouraging face to face meetings.
Discouraging travel, encouraging wfh, mandated for vulnerable staff.
Encouraging commutes at non peak times. Issuing laptops and mobiles to those who dont have them.
Probably going to set up a separate leadership team so one can continue if the other falls.

Finance company in London- our Office in China was shut down before their new year. UK office still working, travel has slowed right down (bosses tended to travel every week)- still travelling to the US but less and less people are willing to meet so slowly that will dry up. All been told to ensure we have work computers and vpns up and running. But so far still in the office, and with a cold.

London Uni. They are following the government guidance, i.e. nothing.

Veterinary industry, we have our duty of care to consider so are getting very regular updates/guidance from our employers and the Royal college. We have fairly elaborate plans in place to collaborate with other practices in the case of having to close. We now have a visitors book and everyone entering the practice has to leave contact details. Likewise anyone entering has to use our hand gels on entry/exit. Meetings of over 5 people are banned as is attendance on courses /Congress etc.

Tourist attraction in Kent - just posters in staff loos about washing hands

I tried to get the conversation started amongst our team of 8 in visitor reception about sanitising more to help customers as well as ourselves (door handles, pay points, toys) but the reaction was that we're too busy to go round with a spray and should carry on with personal hygiene .

DH office has banned all travel between offices in London and south east and cancelled the monthly quiz night

NHS Director here and whilst it's very much "business as usual", there is a greater shift to working from home than usual. Our normal stance is no more than two days per weeks, but now we can work "wherever we are comfortable". Problem I have is I'm very much delivery-focused, which includes lots of conferences, workshops, meetings etc...all of which are being cancelled. I really feel for those on the front line when us mere pen-pushers are being so protected.

C London work in media - people who can WFH (maybe 15%) are but the rest of us are working as normal. They've put out sanitising wipes because we hot desk 🙄

I am a church minister. Extra hygiene precautions around communion, no handshakes, extra cleaning of door handles etc with stuff that will kill the virus.

Monitoring the situation - if there are cases locally, I wouldn’t be surprised if we suspend all services and meetings for a period. I would then expect to spend my time checking on people via phone/email and possibly taking supplies to people who are self isolating if they haven’t got family who can do it.