Sorry! Another coronavirus!

[panicstationsready]

NC for this as it could be outing. I have an underlying health condition - as does my husband, others with our health problems and a similar age have died. We aren't self isolating however we are keeping mixing to a minimum. I have extremely vulnerable parents.

I'm a civil servant, my work has said 'business as usual' despite us WFH regularly - it is something we can and do very easily.

So, my question is, now that possible cases won't be tested unless you're in hospital, my office won't know who definitely has it and who doesn't so them saying 'we will deep clean the office if someone is diagnosed' won't work, because no one will know for certain. And we hot desk.

Would I be unreasonable to demand to WFH?

The government has advised Companies to allow wfh to whoever they can. It's a public responsibility.

I think if you have an underlying health condition and you're in a role where you work from home regularly anyway, you wouldn't be being at all unreasonable to request that wfh becomes the norm for you for now.

Definitely not. I demanded to wfh this week too as my job can be done at home. They initially said no until i said i would be sticking my notice in then they agreed.

I did the coronavirus plan for my work and I asked all managers to identify and make a plan to protect vulnerable staff. For most that is WFH, although all staff who can are now WFH anyway. YWNBU at all to ask for WFH. They are unreasonable not to suggest it.

Thank you all, just that when I suggested it they weren't overly happy about it, sod them, better safe than sorry!

And this is how we are going to get herd immunity.

Now we cannot diagnose non hospitalised cases, we cannot confirm an outbreak and there is no basis to close a school or allow a whole office to WFH whilst things are deep cleaned.

Yes people can self isolate? But the onus is completely different.