Desperate to hold onto their ever-shrinking workforce, but still unwilling to walk back their ignorance and lose face, Dell management thinks, “hey, let's screw our healthiest, most productive employees using whatever leverage we have left,” is the way?
@trendless Union, now. Covid is a workplace safety issue. It should be a high priority in any union negotiations. The ability to work from home keeps people safe and penalizing people based on remote/in office status is inherently discriminatory against people whose status is protected by law. They should get sued into the ground.
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Good luck getting everyone in your unit on board with asking for Covid protections. I couldn't get it mentioned in our last contract negotiation.
@sb@trendless Stuff like air quality monitoring, filtration and good ventilation should be long hanging fruit which shouldn't annoy the "I don't want to a wear a mask" contingent. Same with paid sick leave of a scientifically appropriate period (10+ days) following confirmed infection. Stuff like free repeat workplace testing following confirmed exposure should imo be in there too.
@sb@trendless High quality masks should also be paid for by employers for those who want to use them and formal fit testing should be part of that process.
@KanaMauna@sb@trendless I can get 3m Auras for $.70 each right now in bulk. Lets say there are 250 working days every year.
If you don't think $175 is worth spending to keep an employee on the job making your company money instead of out sick for (very typically) more than a week, then you are bad at business.
What is worse, these sick periods will tend to come not as random employee downtime, but as groups of employees getting sick all at the same time because of your lack of mitigation.
If we're wishing for ponies, I'd like to see standard practice be 3 weeks off paid after diagnosis, to try to maybe cut back on some of the long covid, too.
The obvious irony is that if employers were forced to provide 3 weeks paid sick leave for Covid ( which is reasonable if you understand how the disease works), then they'd also mandate Covid mitigations to prevent employees from getting sick in the first place.
And they get paid enormous salaries for this kind of performance that would get anyone else fired for being obviously dense:
"Senior execs somehow think that people in the office are more productive than at home, even though there's no evidence to back that up."
"There's also a "pack mentality" at play, says Cooper, with tech companies trying to follow what everybody else is doing, rather than continue with what has worked for them."
@Greengordon and the amount of discussion, commentary, and studies about it shows just how self aware they aren't, too. More decision based evidence making by people who whose feet are rarely if ever held to the fire.
And yet, for all the complaints everyone and their mother has about how they do their jobs...and despite the fact that they would get MASSIVE rewards if there was a hugely better way and they did it... they don't. It's almost as if they way they have found of doing things works really, really well according to the metrics they are incentivized to perform to.
@croissant it's so [funny] to watch the exact same managerial disconnect from reality and lack of foresight that's been a primary driver of the ongoing pandemic shoot itself in the foot so obviously -- and this many years in, to boot.
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