I get them too. Southwest is constantly emailing me and Celebrity and NCL email me frequently. NCL at one time did have a tempting offer. Free wifi, free drinks, free excursions, and free specialty dining if I paid now for a cruise anytime over the next 18 months. I didn’t bite but it did get the wheels spinning in my head. Surely in 12+ months it will be safe, I thought.
Marriot is doing big giveaways.
Lantz
1990
The way airline routes are distributed between companies requires that they fly a certain minimum number of flights daily/weekly. In those cases they will offer very cheap flights just to get anything at all back vs flying literally empty.
Any recommendations for mask providers? I’ve been staying home while looking after my mom but now Im starting a new job in August and need to get something effective. I figure there’s a lot of shady people trying to cash in on the need for masks.
I don’t trust anyone but I am using Wyze KN95’s. I remember you, great boomer!
My brother is a physician and he recommended the Envo mask. It’s certified N95 and dramatically more comfortable to wear longterm. He does not trust Chinese KN95 masks due to quality control issues and was previously reusing a single 3M N95 mask for over 3 months.
Note you must wear a surgical mask over the envomask to cover the one-way exhalation valve. He was doing that with his 3M N95 anyway to protect from “splatter”. Ick.
Probably overkill unless you’re a healthcare worker and need to wear a N95 all day. I didn’t buy one myself.
orald
1994
Clay
1995
Well, school schedules and plans are so up in the air here that we decided to withdraw our kids and officially homeschool them for the 2020-2021 school year. They will be in 4th and 2nd grades. We’ve been organized about it so far, having printed binders of the state standards for all of their curricula and using Notion to pull together a whole bunch of lesson materials and project ideas. We’re in an extremely fortunate employment situation to be able to afford the time to do this.
Given all of the ambiguity surrounding us right now, we decided that we would prefer to stick with something that we can control for their education for this school year. I’ve done a good amount of teaching in the past and really enjoy it, though I don’t expect it to be all smooth sailing. Our kids have a Montessori background, so they’re very familiar with project-based learning and are pretty self-motivated and engaged when it comes to school and learning.
This is NOT a decision we would have taken if they had been middle school age or older. If COVID magically clears up in the next few months, we’ll return them to public school (probably after Xmas). Anyhow, they’re excited about it, I’m looking forward to being able to spend some time with them that otherwise wouldn’t have been available, and it certainly should be an adventure.
Well my company has now officially put out the word, WFH until end of 2020. Unless you are listed as essential personnel, which I am. :|
It continues to be strange to pull into the office lot, that has near 5000 car spaces, and be one of 6 vehicles on a given day.
At least on my days off when I am working from home, I get the benefits of not driving in.
Fingers crossed that there’s a missing conjunction there.
Sounds like a good plan @Clay.
Interesting read! I am very interested in the data that employees with 1:1s with their managers didn’t see a spike in hours worked.
Google formally announced that employees there will WFH until summer 2021.
I’ve been a bit dismissive of the idea that WFH would become the new norm, but now I’m not so sure. There certainly will be some cultural changes in the years ahead, as a result of a shift in work patterns due to year-long WFH periods.
Some of us have been working remotely for years. It certainly will change things to have everyone else working remote too. Frankly for the better I expect.
Not if capital has their way:
This aggressively bad take completely fails to address the fact that costs will be shifted to workers, who are already being stretched thin both in the office due to RIFs and financially. “Asking” them to switch over to contract work while I guarantee they won’t adjust wages to compensate will make things worse, and given unemployment numbers most aren’t in a position to say no.
Moving to WFH is already going to save large companies a nice chunk of change; perhaps in the near term this will be minor from utilities and general office consumables but as leases expire they can relocate to smaller office spaces.
Menzo
2006
For now employers have leverage to demand nearly anything from current or potential employees. But when that pendulum swings, and unemployment is back around 4%, and workers are no longer tied to a physical location and can switch employers at will with zero friction, that will change (hopefully) in a big way.
Lots of people will no longer have to worry about moving, their spouse finding new work, getting their kids into new schools, etc. in this new world order.
Working from home will change tax write offs for companies that open offices in certain communities. Will the governments offer any type of breaks to hire people at home because that can have an effect on senior management strategy.
