Our company has banned us from traveling anywhere this Christmas holiday. We are required to stay in the city to avoid having to undergo a two week quarantine upon our return (thereby delaying our return to work since our holiday is only two weeks long).
Is there a "industrialized" country where this sort of thing is still legal? Or are you in Bangladesh?
We have this going on at my place of work, at least for the critical workers (the ones not eligible for raises, bonuses, or promotion). This is in the United States.
The critical workers have to work elbow to elbow, so we make sure to not do anything outside work that would expose us to the virus. It's a 24x7 lifestyle change. But it's also backed up by management. If we have the audacity to host family who drive in from out of town, or to drive off for a weekend in the mountains, or to take vacation or personal time in which we cross paths with people outside our household, we're quarantined at our own expense for up to twice the period of time recommended by the CDC. The same standards do not apply to the work-from-home clique.
For the work-from-home clique, whose work we kind of have to cover because telecommuting precludes any kind of hands-on activity, the rules are different. They have the option of traveling. Management will arrange exemptions to quarantine for them, and find work they can do from home. There are probably raises and promotions available for this set too because they are Designated Winners. But the grunts who make everything roll (and who take a great deal of physical risk to do it) have an entirely different (and much higher) set of standards. We, the Designated Losers, are the ones working extremely long hours under physically unsafe conditions. We are not permitted to slip schedule or scale down our operations, and when we get close to meeting a milestone management requires us to move offices or otherwise expose ourselves to more people, more buildings, and more physical risks.
The especially horrific thing is that management is planning for us to get sick. The extra red tape they are applying, and the extra work they are imposing on the onsite personnel, has consequences. Every additional building we go into, and every addition person we are required to cross paths with, increases our risk especially when the high standards applied to us don't apply to the people with whom we cross paths. Sooner or later, the clique permitted to do personal travel out of state and to go to multiple Hallowe'en parties (while the rest of us weren't even allowed to hand out candy) will catch the virus and bring it in to infect us.