Building industry and the office

[Thegruffalohassparklesandfluff]

I work in the building industry, development and construction, I’m office based. Would you still be expecting to go into the office or work from home if you are able to?

I work in the office of a construction company. I’m in work and am planning on remaining so.

In the office. I work in the same Industry and will be in the office as I have all year apart from the odd day when I had childcare issues and worked from home, but literally that was about 5 days since beginning of year.

Ok, fair enough. Thanks for your input.

18% of the staff have already had covid in the last 3 weeks so I suppose I assumed we would work from home as it’s obviously spreading (& I don’t want it/want to spread it to my family).

What’s your office like? Ours is very spacious. You could easily fit 4/5 people in each office but there are only 2/3 people in each section.

Yes and yes we will be staying in the office.

Same industry, I’m working from home as much as I can, with site visits as required. But no point in going to the office just to sit in Teams meetings all day

Depends what you do. If you do invoicing, sales, HR, purchasing then you can probably WFH. If you're an architect and need a special desk and large scale printer then maybe not.

But it does sound like your office is not covid secure if there's been that much transmission and that they should revisit the risk assessment again and take appropriate action - get as many people as possible to WFH and put measures in place - hand sanitiser, cleaning routines, spaced out desks, screens etc to reduce the transmission risk.

Plus it sounds like you should have a lot of people self isolating if its spreading round your office. Some of those people are likely to have been in contact with those already infected.

@BarbaraofSeville

Depends what you do. If you do invoicing, sales, HR, purchasing then you can probably WFH. If you're an architect and need a special desk and large scale printer then maybe not.

But it does sound like your office is not covid secure if there's been that much transmission and that they should revisit the risk assessment again and take appropriate action - get as many people as possible to WFH and put measures in place - hand sanitiser, cleaning routines, spaced out desks, screens etc to reduce the transmission risk.

Plus it sounds like you should have a lot of people self isolating if its spreading round your office. Some of those people are likely to have been in contact with those already infected.

That's exactly what I do (HR, puchasing, accounts, payroll, invoicing and CIS verififications etc).

I found it very difficult to work from home as everything I need is in the office and the estimators also need access to these things.

If we were in the office there would be four of us, small construction related company.
I do project admin and accounts and have been working from home since March. We did consider going back in September but due to three of us having primary children it was decided that it may be easier to continue WFH. I don't mind it but I'm at the point whereby I would probably enjoy being in the office one day a week for a change of scenery. I think we will remain WFH until the end of the year now and the reassess the situation.