Masks in offices

[Flossie44]

Do you think this will become a thing anytime soon?

I'm worried this idiot government will make masks mandatory in all offices when it's really not necessary

This idiot government has a history of under reacting (or acting way too late). Doubt masks will be worn in offices until the second wave is well established.
Sorry I’m in a grump today.

@WhenSheWasBad

I'm worried this idiot government will make masks mandatory in all offices when it's really not necessary

This idiot government has a history of under reacting (or acting way too late). Doubt masks will be worn in offices until the second wave is well established.
Sorry I’m in a grump today.

for being grumpy, is hard not to be living under current government chaos!

@WhenSheWasBad you and me both but probably for different reasons! There’s no reason whatsoever that I would need to wear a mask at my desk but no doubt there’ll be no give and take from the government, it’ll be ‘all offices’. Fine if you can’t social distance but they don’t need to make us all suffer!

I hope not. We aren't wearing them in our office at the moment. We don't have meetings or anything though, it's only a small business.

Those of you who have to wear a mask while walking about, but not at your desk - you must be constantly touching your faces!

I'm up and down all the time in the office - to the printer, to the kitchen, to speak to colleagues....surely having to put a mask on and take it off every few minutes is hardly the safest approach......

I'm constantly touching my face even if I've got the mask on for any length of time as I can't bear it, I feel as though I can't breathe properly and I have to adjust it as it either moves up or down my face. But to answer your question yes, I am touching my face a lot although I'm using hand sanitiser each time.

@PutneyHill

I hope so. I'm based in an office full of smokers coughing constantly, sharing phones and a manager with an unintentially shouty voice who is always standing over our desks chatting. Everyone seems to think the hand gels will provide protection from the airbourne element of the virus. Comical to think I was advised by the government to shield for months, only to wheel myself back into this environment.

As you are newly deshielded, you should only return to work of it's a Covid safe environment.

Ask to see the risk assessment, and how it covers the exceptionally medically vulnerable.

Your colleagues would have to be heartless shits of the highest order to refuse to take the precautions that make a workplace Covid safe, this removing your income

Wearing a mask all day (and for the 3 hour round commute on the train) to sit in a stuffy office when you could do the same job for home would make no sense and is unjustifiable.

Our office is full now and back to normal apart from the one way system around the building, but there's no way I could wear a mask all day. I highly doubt they'd bring that rule in.

@HoneyBee03

Our office is full now and back to normal apart from the one way system around the building, but there's no way I could wear a mask all day. I highly doubt they'd bring that rule in.

Makes me quite how much more at risk some people are than others. Obviously if you're a paramedic you'll be more at risk than an office worker, but there should be some standards set by government to keep workers well.

4 of us in our office none wearing masks. 2 of the 4 are also exempt.

This was suggested by the management of DH's office in an attempt to get everyone back in instead of working from home.

It hasn't been met with enthusiasm.

I can certainly see it in some large organisations where you have lots of people, and perhaps very small organisations where space is tight. I agree, they're not pleasant, but NHS and shop workers are having to wear them all day in hot stuffy places, so there are some that are far worse off.

Makes me quite angry how much more at risk some people are than others. Obviously if you're a paramedic you'll be more at risk than an office worker, but there should be some standards set by government to keep workers well.

This is what teachers have been saying for months but hardly anyone gives a shit.

@SaltyAndFresh

Makes me quite angry how much more at risk some people are than others. Obviously if you're a paramedic you'll be more at risk than an office worker, but there should be some standards set by government to keep workers well.

This is what teachers have been saying for months but hardly anyone gives a shit.

I do care about this. I don't understand wtf is going on with parents who don't care about teachers.

Just seen in the news that France are about to make mask-wearing mandatory in workplaces.

Thank you @latticechaos, my spirits lift a little when I read posts like yours.

@SaltyAndFresh

Thank you *@latticechaos*, my spirits lift a little when I read posts like yours.

S'alright.

I have an awks conversation with our head soon, where I will say I think the arrangements are unacceptable for staff and students. I've no idea what I'm going to do when term starts.

But I believe most parents do care, and those shouting loudest are a small but noisy minority.

I really can’t see the point of socially distances offices. Why not just stay working at home? Socially distanced- mask wearing offices seem even more pointless to me.

Mask creep is well underway

@Sailingblue

I really can’t see the point of socially distances offices. Why not just stay working at home? Socially distanced- mask wearing offices seem even more pointless to me.

I agree, my work have had a few people back - large company, big offices, anyone can book to go in for a day as long as not too many other people have. But some of the rules mean you may as well be at home eg they don't want you using the meeting rooms, so even if the person you're meeting is in the office as well, have it virtually.

Our office is reopening Sept and have said you have to wear a mask while walking around but not at your desk.

Ditto - so mask free at desk but on for trips to copier, loo and water station. Plus one way system.

All sounds fair enough to me

I am going back and we have to wear them whilst walking around the office and going to the toilets not looking forward to it at all

Doesn’t bother me as don’t do much floor walking in the office. Can’t wait to go back!

Ha - now mask after mask advert on this thread - first one for corporate logos

And the 2nd a girly pretty one