There's gotta be a reason, right? Otherwise, it's just management being cruel and callous and proving once again how little they care about employees.
Things like this should not still come as a surprise to me, considering how often the same has been proven to be true...
@ @egt+141vrPxp and Everyone else:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/unitedhealth-group-tells-employees-go-work-unless-they-are-high-risk-group-have-symptoms-or-meet-other-exceptions/
They are reporting on this and HAVE A COMMENTS SECTION. I repeat: THEY HAVE A COMMENTS SECTION.
Go on there and voice your concerns. Expose the to public how this company treats/pays us terribly. Expose this company for shipping jobs overseas and it's carelessness for US citizen's healthcare and their data. Expose this company's greed and it's nasty culture.
If enough comments get to this article (Its the WAPO: they will love your rhetoric) this will push the article to front page news. And the word can get out about this soul s—ing company.
In my area, employees were told to take laptops home daily. Accommodations are being made for those that need to watch kids.
If they actually plan to transition more people to work from home, then they should say something=transparency. People would be more understanding if they knew that eventually the company will support company wide WFH due to the spread of the virus. As of now, the email says it all=I really dont care how you feel, get yo work.
The mandatory reporting into the office for everyone with an in office position is totally irresponsible especially when a majority of employees already have the ability to work from home–regardless if the infrastructure can handle it or not. There is no social distancing going in hallways, in work spaces or in conference rooms. Um, nope. I'm not going in. I don't need to become sick or become a carrier and infect my family or my parents.
If they want to lay me off because I refused to go in, then so be it. They've just postponed their layoff plan anyway. They'll start up again when this crisis subsides.
The Washington Post has an article about the UHC policy. Check out the corporate spin they're trying to put on it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/unitedhealth-group-tells-employees-go-work-unless-they-are-high-risk-group-have-symptoms-or-meet-other-exceptions/
I'm pretty sure our infrastructure cannot currently support 300k employees connecting via VPN. Give the teams time to get things in place to accommodate.