How Covid Secure is your office?

[WhiteChocTwix]

Just that really.
Am back to work from tomorrow, in a series of temp bookings to keep me going until November. Thrilled to bits to be back in work.
Am I going to look like an idiot if I turn up wearing a mask and keep my distance from others?

No. I've been doing that for months but it's mandatory where I work (nhs office).

No. You’ll look like everyone else. And if you don’t...set the example.

We are banned from wearing masks

6 in a room with 40 staff total

no distancing and sharing all equipment

It’s a joke tbh

I’m going in for first time tomorrow . We get temp taken and have to wear masks apart from when at desks .

Office of normally 18 but split into 2 teams. We have to take our temperature when we enter, sanitise frequently, only one person in the toilets at a time. We also have a one way system and can only take our masks off when we're at our desks.

I felt very safe and was gutted when they closed the office again last week.

OP, don't worry about what others think. As a PP said, set a good example.

Amazingly secure, the facilities team have done a brilliant job.
Masks walking round but not at desks. Clearly signposted one way systems, 50% desks out of use so screens placed face down. Cleaners constantly walking round and hitting touch points, new "covid-safe" push bits on doors.
Gutted it's effectively shut again for the foreseeable, was enjoying my 1-2 days a week.

We have a few screens and some stripy tape..

@bubblebubblebubbletrouble

Amazingly secure, the facilities team have done a brilliant job. Masks walking round but not at desks. Clearly signposted one way systems, 50% desks out of use so screens placed face down. Cleaners constantly walking round and hitting touch points, new "covid-safe" push bits on doors. Gutted it's effectively shut again for the foreseeable, was enjoying my 1-2 days a week.

What are the Covid safe push bits?

@PurpleSweetPeas - these purehold.co.uk/products/purehold-push-antibacterial-door-push-plate

Not something I knew existed but quite cool & underlining the going above & beyond basic hand sanitiser stations etc.

Our covid security is a bottle of hand gel at reception

@bubblebubblebubbletrouble shocked Corona can survive on door handles for up to 9 days! Will be careful with those tomorrow... Thanks everyone. Feel a bit more reassured that ppl are / were happy with being back. I've packed my work bag with a bunch of masks so will be setting a good example as DH says if worst comes to worst and they're all licking each other I can just work to the end of the day and not go back as temp. Will be nice to get out of the house and get some cash in.

@wendz86 best of luck for tomorrow! Hope you have a good first day back.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat @bubble how come your offices closed again? Did you have positive cases?

All distanced. Regular cleaning of handles , communal areas . Screens between desks . Can wear masks in communal areas .
Hand sanitizer points .

No hot decking .

So not too bad .

Sanitiser in reception, a few obligatory signs, and desks spaced out, but that's it. Not sure it would stand up to an inspection sadly

@whitechoctwix - Government said wfh if you can again last week, so for the moment, that's our guidance too. Office is still open. Intern for example who lives 5 mins walk away and has no work space in flat is going in.
Tbh benefits of being in the office are other people so for as long as 98% are at home I will be too.

"@PinkSparklyPussyCat @bubble* how come your offices closed again? Did you have positive cases?"

Last Monday Boris asked those who can work from home to do so, so presumably that's why. This seems an odd time to be going back, O
P.

In my office you would but that’s because for us returning has been entirely voluntary, so almost by definition the people in the office are people who really aren’t particularly worried about Covid. We’re very Covid-secure on paper: we have an elaborate one-way system around the office which people mostly follow (but will disregard on occasion when they’re fed up of walking a lap of an entire floor to get somewhere 20 metres away), enough sanitiser to drown a whale, designated desks and equipment, closed meeting rooms, and designated guards in the lobby to push the buttons to call the lift.

Almost everyone is paying lip service to it all but most people are pretty blasé behind the front.

Apparently it was said people can go to offices that are Covid secure. Our company have said people can come in if they want to.

I'm retail so have to wear a mask in customer facing areas. I tend to still wear it when I need to go into the office as it's pretty small and I don't like to keep taking it on and off. I'd have to put it on to cross from my desk to the office anyway so it might as well stay on. At my own desk (in a Perspex box!) I don't wear it, unless a customer enters the shop or someone comes to talk to me on my side of the Perspex.

We have a sign on the door, a sign in reception with a bottle of sanitizer, some floor stickers and the doors are left propped open. That’s it, no masks, no enforced distancing, shared bathrooms and kitchen. The only positive points are that due to redundancies not all desks are occupied and that as I wfh during lockdown when many of the team were furloughed I am still allowed to do so.
For a few weeks I went in once a week, stopped that now as the r rate is increasing and the office measures are getting worse not better.

One son has been back in office full time about a month. About 3/4 are back in office. They have sanitisers on walls, desk are at safe distance or have screens in between, only one person allowed in kitchen areas and wc’s at a time, not required to wear masks, but they do wear wrists bands, red for no one to come near, orange come near but at safe distance and green that they are ok. The company has spent a huge amount of time getting the offices as safe as they can. My other son is back to work tomorrow in an engineering firm.

I'm back working at home again. The office was secure in theory, but in practice there were too many people using too little space.

In my offices we have signs & sanitiser in reception, sanitiser at various points eg toilets, kitchen, at the entrance to each office. Each person has their own disinfectant to clean their own desk area/equipment & cleaners come in daily too. We have Perspex screens between desks as they are less than 2m apart & facing each other. No-one is wearing masks. We’re taking a bubble approach so we’re not allowed to visit other departments in person & have drop zones for paperwork/parcels to avoid mixing.

So far so good, but I think going into winter we may need to increase measures to include wearing masks, at least in communal areas. We are not being allowed to wfh unless isolating.

Ours is a tiny office, usually up to five people but now no more than two so we rotate working from home.
Sanitiser everywhere, desks cleaned before and after use, regular cleaning of touch points.

Very. One way system, wipes for communal areas and items, lots of hand sanitizer about and very few people in there.