COVID-19 Unemployed/Employed Roll Call Poll
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I’ve been full time remote for almost three years now. I’ve just been chugging along through this situation. I’m really interested to see what kind of roles come open if school is from home this fall and people make the decision to retire or leave to accommodate that.
I've been working from home since St Patricks day with no end in sight. From what I gathered from our last all employee web meeting only they are only expected 50% of the people who did work in the office to come back ever.
Cyclonepride
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Nope. I mean, I certainly could have, as 80% of my current job is website administration and social media, but I haven't. I don't really have a problem with that, as our office is pretty spread out, and I don't have a lot of people in and out of my office on any given day.
Never stopped working. Have been working from home since Mid March, with no end in site. Our office is open because our IT guy is there to take care of the servers and we have one other person there because we still get orders via mail. Our office is fairly small in the first place, with only 25 people, so the company has said they want everyone else working from home, to protect those who have to be in the office.
Been out of work since the end of March. I didn't really even try to look during April and May, simply because everything was shut down. Looking hard now though. Broadcasting, , marketing, social media content and recruiting, if anyone is hiring. 
Essential ag employee so never stopped working. I was in close contact with someone who tested positive last Friday so now I'm just sitting at home waiting for test results. Until Monday, this thing hadn't really effected me at all.
Basically the whole business went remote when it hit.
The very rich Boomer who makes these kinds of decisions even speculated on an "all-hands" call about if we should walk away from office space when the leases are up. It's expensive, and we're not proving to really need it after the past few months.
I would not want to have much for holdings in commercial real estate right now.
The very rich Boomer who makes these kinds of decisions even speculated on an "all-hands" call about if we should walk away from office space when the leases are up. It's expensive, and we're not proving to really need it after the past few months.
I would not want to have much for holdings in commercial real estate right now.
Haven't stopped working. Been coming into work every single day. Unfortunately we've had two employees go get tested over the last week and I haven't seen them since. I'm hoping they are staying home as a precaution.
Work in a small office with six other employees. Unlike a lot of other employers we were talking about contingency plans very early on starting in late January or early February. Since most of what we do is online we all were able to start working remotely in March and continue to do so. We just make a point of letting each other know when we intend to go to the office to grab something so that people can avoid crossing paths if they're concerned about that sort of thing.
At this point it's really becoming apparent that we could continue working like this indefinitely. Not sure if that will be the case, but it's certainly a debate worth having. Like most others I think our stance is that we're going to wait and see how this plays out before making any longer term decisions.
At this point it's really becoming apparent that we could continue working like this indefinitely. Not sure if that will be the case, but it's certainly a debate worth having. Like most others I think our stance is that we're going to wait and see how this plays out before making any longer term decisions.
Thankfully we’ve been blessed not to be directly impacted. Never stopped working, but we all went remote in early March. We have 150 colleagues normally in the office but have only had 10-15 there that couldn’t work remote for one reason or another.
We have an office construction team putting up higher glass walls between the staff cubes and plan on starting our A/B schedule next week with every other seat open in week rotations onsite/offsite. We have a very open environment for those not in offices so there are still a lot of people not excited about returning, and with everything else (kids, school, compromised immune, etc) anybody that wants to stay remote for the time being is able to.
We have started heavy discussions about making a lot of our positions and/or teams flexible to be remote going forward since it’s proven effective for us, with shared spaces available to reserve. As we continue to grow as a company, that will also keep costs down as we are nearing capacity of our current building. Commercial real estate isn’t going to be the same for quite some time - if ever.
We have an office construction team putting up higher glass walls between the staff cubes and plan on starting our A/B schedule next week with every other seat open in week rotations onsite/offsite. We have a very open environment for those not in offices so there are still a lot of people not excited about returning, and with everything else (kids, school, compromised immune, etc) anybody that wants to stay remote for the time being is able to.
We have started heavy discussions about making a lot of our positions and/or teams flexible to be remote going forward since it’s proven effective for us, with shared spaces available to reserve. As we continue to grow as a company, that will also keep costs down as we are nearing capacity of our current building. Commercial real estate isn’t going to be the same for quite some time - if ever.
Essential ag worker. Plants shutting down affected us for a couple months, othet than that, not much has changed.
There's been a lot on "de-officing" in the news and I think it will be a thing for sure. I'd guess around half of office jobs can be done equally well at home.
There are enormous benefits to skipping commutes in major cities, you would have a lot of people getting a couple hours of their life back, every day. That's huge. Reduced impact on global warming too. (Tinfoil hat - covid invented to scare people and reduce CO2 emmissions to save planet!)
The downside is that you miss out on social interaction. People joke about jerk co-workers, but it is a benefit (at least net-net). You will also lose some jobs maintaining/cleaning buildings. And there will be a major impact on the construction industry, office interiors companies, and all the folks that work in those industries. That will be a bigger economic impact than lost property values.
We just bought a new building for our business, but it is 85% warehouse/mfr space, so I feel ok about that.
I've been working from home since they kicked me out of the office on March 23. I was still going in because it was essentially empty so it broke up the monotony of being home 24x7. They had talked about a phased return to the office starting in July. I'm guessing they might push that back another month or so.
My setup at home is pretty much the same as in the office. 2 24 inch monitors. Thought about adding a third but then I would miss the third once I went back.
My setup at home is pretty much the same as in the office. 2 24 inch monitors. Thought about adding a third but then I would miss the third once I went back.
I've been working from home the whole time. Starting June 1st we let some people back into the office, but very few went back in, I'd say < 20%. I expect it'll remain like this through at least the end of the year
Luckily my team and my company have avoided layoffs, only canceling some outside contractors.
I’ve been lucky - I’ve worked (almost) all the way through Covid. I changed jobs in mid-March, my last day at the old job was the first day they went work from home. The new job closed our offices about the same time. Aside from going in to pick up my laptop, I haven’t been in the office. I’m not even sure if I have a desk there or not.
Initially, the CEO said we wouldn’t be back in the office before the 4th of July. In June he announced everyone would get a small work from home stipend for July through September for anyone who needed things for their home office setup and stopped talking about a possible return to the office date.
Initially, the CEO said we wouldn’t be back in the office before the 4th of July. In June he announced everyone would get a small work from home stipend for July through September for anyone who needed things for their home office setup and stopped talking about a possible return to the office date.
