-really pissed at senior management at my workplace for encouraging staff to go to the office to work in the middle of a pandemic!
Westopher, I wanna hear your feedback about this work situation that my colleagues and I will face in the near future. You're a smart and insightful man based on your posts that I see on RS and the numerous "thanks" that you get from members for your posts.
Long story short, a senior manager in my workplace (government office) sent out an all staff email yesterday asking staff to wait for an email from their supervisors. Senior managers wants all employees to come to the office to take away all personal belongings from their desks by a certain date. Why?
Some moron in upper management thinks that it is a good idea for staff to come to work in the office and sit in any desk that he or she wants to. As of this year, work stations/desks are shared among all employees.
In fact, management created a "coordinator" job so that one dude can coordinate the set up of office signage in elevators, hallways, lunchroom etc. about social distancing.
I am so pissed right now because idiots in senior management are putting the health of employees in the midst of this Covid pandemic at risk in order to get more employees to work in the office. Rationale? They think that more employees working in the office, despite supervisors working from home, means more employee productivity compared to working from home.
Are they serious???
Someone thinks I play video games, watch TV all day while working from home?
The risk of Covid transmission just went up much higher with staff sharing desks. I need to take my headset away, and other belongings because there is no way I am sharing a headset with another employee during this pandemic!
I already use tonnes of wetwipes to wipe my desk, photocopier, and other office equipmentdown.
My union reps will push back hard at management if managers ask a number of employees that is deemed "too high" for the office. I don't know the number of employees in the office that would make union reps contact management.
Good luck trying to social distance in the washrooms at my office.
Change happens so slow in my workplace to keep employees safe. My colleagues and I just got our work laptops and phones in
June for home use.
I don't see plexiglass barriers going up at my office's cubicles anytime soon either.
Westopher, what are your thoughts on this upcoming change in workplace situation?