My company is not feeling the effects yet in terms of business. But we have sent two people home with coughs for mandatory 2 week home quarantine. One can fortunately work from home, but the other works in production, which is not a “work from home” kind of job. So we are creating projects for her that she can do on her laptop for the company and get paid.
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I am fortunate that I work in technology and have worked from home for years so not much changed for me, other than being grounded from my usual planes/trains/automobile stuff to go see customers. It’s all virtual now, which is fine.
We have stood up over 100 solutions for customers dealing with the crisis in the last week, mostly virtual call centers for those who need their folks to WFH, but also crisis hotlines, chatbots to answer typical questions, symptom checkers, and a lot of telemedicine type applications. I’m very grateful that we are able to help but I am also exhausted. We are all working 15-16 hour days right now and I expect that to continue for the foreseeable future. The silver lining is that does mean I can do my part to buy gift cards from the places I normally shop, continue to pay my trainer for rides, etc. And for that I am very grateful.
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I work in local government so I am working more hours than I ever have. Horse is basically feral at this point but I am lucky to have a job. My husband will be laid off? or something today I think. We have a shelter in place order that will start tonight so his business will have to close. Not sure what they have decided about the employees. We are lucky to have savings that will tide us over for a while.
