Post by ferthalangur (aka Rob) on Apr 13, 2020 7:43:44 GMT -5
An interesting idea. I am assuming that it was not intended to be sarcastic or ironic when I examine it ...
Would it be practical? I am looking at this from a USA-centric perspective. In some countries, like China, they have factory "cities." I am thinking about what I have read about Foxcomm ... the company that probably assembled your computer or telephone if you got it from Apple, Dell, HP, or another well-known brand. Where there is a work ethic that your job and your company are more important than everything else in life, that might fly. Not in most countries that respect individual freedoms.
The people at such a business would have to be quarantined in place at work ... no going back home or out to a pub ... otherwise you risk infecting everyone at the business. Social distancing would still have to be maintained at the work place, and daily health screenings of everyone. You would have to provide cleaning and maintenance staff that also were encamped. So you would need probably double or triple the floor space to accomodate the same number of employees.
Would it be practical? I am looking at this from a USA-centric perspective. In some countries, like China, they have factory "cities." I am thinking about what I have read about Foxcomm ... the company that probably assembled your computer or telephone if you got it from Apple, Dell, HP, or another well-known brand. Where there is a work ethic that your job and your company are more important than everything else in life, that might fly. Not in most countries that respect individual freedoms.
The people at such a business would have to be quarantined in place at work ... no going back home or out to a pub ... otherwise you risk infecting everyone at the business. Social distancing would still have to be maintained at the work place, and daily health screenings of everyone. You would have to provide cleaning and maintenance staff that also were encamped. So you would need probably double or triple the floor space to accomodate the same number of employees.
I think that the cost of maintaining operations under these conditions would be huge. Aside from the cost, there is the liability of getting sued by your employees if there was an outbreak under quarantine. There is something for OSHA attorneys to ponder from home.
This all presumes that your employees would be willing to sacrifice everything else in their lives for the sake of their loyalty to their business and their paycheck. Do they get paid for the 16 hours per day that they don't work, but have to stay in the company work space? Can they bring in something to do to keep themselves occupied for those 16 hours, assuming that they didn't want to earn some extra doing a double shift? More space needed. It is asking a lot. I have been in situations where I have had to stay at work for four days, after a systems meltdown ... sleeping on couches in break rooms in short shifts, having food brought in, etc. It was an exceptional situation, and I was well-rewarded, but it ended, and I could go home and recover.
I worked for a consulting company that put their transient employees up in "company apartments" that were more like "company group homes." That was fine for the young single employees with no family ties ... perhaps even fun, but if you have a family, you might not want to live this way.
I worked for a consulting company that put their transient employees up in "company apartments" that were more like "company group homes." That was fine for the young single employees with no family ties ... perhaps even fun, but if you have a family, you might not want to live this way.
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