Quarantine post holiday and wfh

[EasterIssland]

Hi
Few posters in other threads have posted something that has puzzled me. Let’s say you have been wfh since March and the company has no plans to go back for a while to the offices. You go on holiday to Spain I.e and when you return you’ve to self isolate. What I get from some posters is that companies are insisting you’ve to take 2 weeks off with unpaid leave ... and this doesn’t make any sense to me ... why self isolation would impact your work?

I’m Spanish and have a holiday booked to visit my family. We’ve been both wfh since March with no date for returning back to the office. My company back in March said if anyone was travelling to north Italy would need to self isolate and wfh which is what I guess would happen now with Spain. This makes sense to me. So why are some companies not allowing to wfh even if possible if we need to self isolate ?

I assumed it was because they don't really want people going to places that aren't deemed safe. So they are not encouraging travel at all, even if you are able to deal with the 2 weeks quarantine. I also wonder if it's to make it fair for people who cannot WFH, so all the nurses and shop workers etc have as much chance of going on holiday as people who can WFH

If I was the manager of a company I might have a timeframe for when I was wanting people to come back to the office for at least some of the time, a plan which I may or may not have communicated to staff yet, and I would not want people's requirement to stay at home longer to be factored into that.