Any non key workers still being told into come to work?

[Halfstonehomerun]

Just curious, my work have closed to the public but staff will work behind closed doors. We can definitely keep 2m apart from each other and have sanitiser/sprays/a lot of hand washing awareness!
Feel like I am the only person I know who is a non key worker who is doing this?
I should add it’s not a huge concern to me at the moment, I just wondered if anyone else is still going to the office next week.

My place of work is still open - it’s a library. I’m worried with the school closures next week, it will be busy with school kids, on top of the vulnerable older people who normally attend the library. It’s shared computers, shared books, magazines etc. I’m hoping they are closing soon as it seems madness to keep open?

We have to go in and we absolutely can work from home.
It feels as if we are being brought in juts to make a point and I'm angry about it

Very non essential retail here. Can't believe we are still open and face to face with the public. Cleaning everything, constantly and gelling/washing hands often but feel very anxious and confused as to why we are still trading.

I work in a warehouse and while we are very dependant on orders from schools so we knew work would tail off, orders have increased from parents after Irish schools shut.

We have gone onto a rota of A/B teams working 2/3 days a week. The teams are not to mix and we have been told not to socialise or be in the vicinity of someone on an opposing team.

OH's factory is still working, though have sent home vunerable people and agency workers.

I've also had job offers come through from my agency for a place in my town....if it's the company I think they make something useful in this climate

We can work from home. But in their wisdom the Management have decided that support staff have to work in the office - basically because our suspicious and control-freak boss thinks they can't be trusted to work from home and actually work.

So we have the ridiculous sitaution where senior staff WFH and support staff go in. As one of my colleagues commenetd ; 'what are we, fucking expendable'?

No-one needs to go into the office, and as long as the work that needs to get done gets done I do not understand why they have taken that approach. Sure we have one pisstaker in the office, but most people are willing to do their job.

Not a key worker, but work in a school part time and have been told it’s work as normal from Monday & I’ve 2 kids at home. DH works FT, isn’t a key worker & impossible to do his job from home. Having to leave a teenager & preteen alone together for the first time next week.

I work in a private physio and have still been asked to go in next week. We still have patients/members of the public going in. I would rather they closed but have not suggested it yet.

@PheasantOnACushion
Do you work in my office? Sounds exactly the same and with dh in the police I feel that it's an unecessary exposure for me to go into work as well.

@lettuceHP

No, you should have shut last night..
Then your employer contacts the government and you get paid up to 80% of your salary.

Ledkr - to be honest our senior management are pretty shite at managing anyway. I think they have got this very very wrong. They said is that they want to keep the business going.... well, my receptionist colelague who is expected to go in every day and who has a husband going through chemo rather more understandibly cares for her family than our business (where they are mostly underpaid, and certainly undervalued, and the boss is on a 7 figure salary).

Dicks.

Yes vet nurse, non key worker, not possible to keep distance from colleagues, not possible to work from home. Fully expecting to catch covid-19. We've had an endless stream of clients just popping in to collect flea treatment ffs, because they're all working from home and have plenty time on their hands. Because of this I expect we'll all get ill and end up with no one to treat the sick animals .

I work for a local authority and am still going into office, I won’t be able to work from home and will keep working whilst I can.