Coronavirus- What is your current working situation ??

[Jack0Life]

My work announced this past Thur that they will be closed starting Sunday till the end of March.
I'm guessing it will be much longer than just 2 weeks.
We will be paid while we're off. Not my usual salary but more like ~$480/week. Still love it.
My wife is still working. She was working at home Mon and Fri but now its permanently at home.
My wife hates her job. She was going to quit but I told her to hang on until the situation settle down. She might be the only income(before I knew my situation). She makes $50k/year so we will be fine. No need to dip into savings during the lockdown.

[kanga1622]

DH and I are both at home for an unknown period of time. We are both receiving full pay. I am working from home as much as I am able while DH is basically keeping up on email.

[martyconlonontherun]

Was in Europe so on 2 weeks quarantine which doesn't make sense since worker had it in our office and they reopened the next day. Was told to get cleared by doctor and come back in. I said no thank you and working at home for foreseeable future. Really disheartening to see the lack of backbone by middle management to say if you can work at home, go ahead.

[American GenX]

Working full time.  It's unlikely I'll get any time off.  A small chance of WFH, but I'm not counting on it.

[GuitarStv]

All our offices are closed and we are working from home for the foreseeable future.  If you want to go in to the office it needs to be cleared with your manager, and you need a damned good reason.

[MyAlterEgoIsTaller]

My office is still open and I'm still going there.  It's a job that I can do perfectly well from home, but so far my company has said that we should be in the office unless we have to be at home with children, or we have a health condition that puts us in a higher-risk group.  I'm relatively healthy and I don't have children.

It's becoming increasingly pointless going to the office because so many others are staying home with kids that there's hardly anyone with whom to communicate in person anyway.  But I don't feel like I can stop going.  I think that people will be laid off soon, and I don't want to make myself a target by not following the current policy.

At least there's probably low risk of transmitting anything as there are so few of us there that I only even saw 2 people all day.
And there is hardly any traffic, as most of the rest of the city is already shut down.

[Jesstache]

I am the stay at home parent (thankfully) but my husband is a VP of engineering at a company that sent all "non-essential" personnel" to work from home.  He's an executive so is still reporting to the office to come up with a "stay afloat" game plan.  Not sure how long that'll last for since all the counties surrounding us (bay area) are under shelter in place orders.  My guess is we'll be under shelter in place as well before the end of the week.

[EscapeVelocity2020]

I'm apparently 'non-essential' and started working from home on Monday.  Shocking that was only yesterday, it feels like I've been WFH for weeks.  My SAHW commented during our walk today that it is working out pretty well.  We have a good house for it and the kids are set up for on-line school.  I don't know if I'll ever want to 'work from work' again!

[MrsPennyPincher]

I am working from home for at least two weeks. Husband works for a dental office and was sent home for two weeks without pay, after their office closed.

[PDXTabs]

I was already WFH, but now I share our house with my wife who also works from home. Not my favorite, TBH. I preferred the being alone for my workday. Still, I don't have little kids running around.

[Noodle]

We are work from home unless we have a specific reason to go to the office. Since our IT department was almost wholly unprepared to support staff working from home, most of those trips will be to use software or teleconference equipment that aren't available to us at home. But I work in a small satellite office with relatively few staff, so outside contact will be pretty minimal.

[Staunch Aim]

For my job, all U.S. employees (myself included) are working from home until the end of the month, at least.

I'm single, but do rent out two rooms in my house:
Tenant 1 is paycheck to paycheck and works the counter in a marijuana dispensary.  He can't work from home, is hopeful that they'll stay open.
Tenant 2 is a grad student at the local medical college.  His employment should be stable and he is currently working from home.

T1's situation is why I'm resigned to catching this bug, if I haven't already. 

If I am laid off, the rent covers the lion's share of my bare bones spend, so I'd be okay.

[jpdx]

I'm a freelancer and a most jobs have either canceled, or will be impossible to carry out in this social distancing environment. Kid is home from school for at least 6 weeks, which means work from home is not very productive. Right now my industry is at a complete standstill, yet the bills keep coming.

This is why we have a robust emergency fund. We have enough cash to cover a year of living expenses. I hope we don't need to.

[chemistk]

I'm not concerned about losing my position. As recent as a few weeks ago, I was strongly leaning toward seriously looking at other opportunities but today I'm extremely glad I am in my current position.

The majority of my work responsibilities are lab-related, and despite that, all steps are being taken to ensure that even us lab folks are able to work from home. I worked from home yesterday, today, and will at least Friday. All of us in the lab have manufacturing support on our job descriptions and because of this, the Company considers us critical personnel. If the manufacturing facilities are still running, everyone in my group is on call to come in, and at least one of us needs to be on-site.

For us, working from home is an interesting endeavor. As a lab professional, eventually you just run out of things to do when you don't have access to a lab. There's only so much administrative work, remote training, and research one can do and thankfully our boss is being incredibly flexible with what is considered 'work'.

But things are insanely fluid right now and any number of things could cause a shift in our group's policy.

[Bearblastbeats]

The company I work for is a small less than 50 person manufacturer of millwork and casework. Since Boston is closed to construction work, we took a slight hit for projects we have out there. Luckily, the owners are keeping the shop open until they can no longer. They informed us to try and save as much money as we can until the inevitable happens.

My gf works in retail. They reduced store hours and closes at 6pm except for truck nights. She already only works the 2 truck nights they have, and due to dot coms, she has been slammed with orders.

[AnnaGrowsAMustache]

Currently freelance and contract, and the people I do the most work for have found themselves making zero dollars in the last week or so. So... yeah.

[alcon835]

The entire office is WFH and all travel is grounded through at least the end of the month with the expectation that this thing will go longer.

Right now, we're not being given any time off unless someone gets sick. We're leaning heavily on Teams to bridge the gap in person-to-person communication in the interim.

[2sk22]

I am a bit of an outlier - I have been primarily work-from-home since 2004! As a senior software person working in flexible companies, I am very used to this and have a very well equipped home office. So absolutely no change in circumstances.

[StarBright]

I am a bit of an outlier - I have been primarily work-from-home since 2004! As a senior software person working in flexible companies, I am very used to this and have a very well equipped home office. So absolutely no change in circumstances.

You are the only person I've seen on here who has been WFH longer than me! I've been full time remote since 2009.

My work is uninterrupted other than the added strain of creating and maintaining "stay afloat" planning. But my DH is now WFH until May and both kids are home through at least the second week of April (but our governor has been strongly hinting that he will close schools for the rest of the year).

We are not set up for all of us to be home and definitely not set up for two full time working adults to be working from home. I have some work that requires internet restrictions so the rest of the family is dead in the water when I need to do those tasks. Should be a very interesting three months.

[Sibley]

I am wfh, no arguments there due to my asthma.
My team is on a "trial wfh" - management is earning themselves lots of bad words, and has pretty clearly communicated that they don't trust the team, any of us, despite the fact that we're professionals and all occasionally work from home anyway. There will be lots of people job searching, and since we're all experienced and good at what we do, it probably won't be

The office is not closed. There are people still going in. And the company is pretty busy right now earning the distrust and contempt that pretty much all of my coworkers are expressing. There was a confirmed case in the building but different tenant. We have come to the conclusion that they won't close the office until someone makes them.

[2sk22]

You are the only person I've seen on here who has been WFH longer than me! I've been full time remote since 2009.

Talking about working remotely: I spent the summer of 1990 (yes 30 years ago!) working remotely on the internet for a government lab for a computer science project. Back then only a handful of grad students and researchers in universities and labs had access to the Internet. I was working on a compiler for a new programming language. I used to upload my work every night to an FTP server and would have a phone call with my supervisor the next day (he was across the country). So that probably makes me one of the first ever telecommuters :-)

[damnedbee]

My company is open for regular operations, but no one is permitted to work on-site. All 600+ employees have been under mandatory telework since March 13. The time period is indefinite, but 2-8 weeks has been the estimate.

Many people had regular telework arrangements of one day or more per week, so this adjustment hasn't been too difficult. The main challenges are large conference calls, heavy demand on the server, and unusual work hours due to the need to provide childcare while schools/daycares are closed. Our industry is also involved in the coronavirus response, so many staff are under high stress and pressure.

Some of the benefits are not losing 3 hours a day to a stressful commute. I'm loving this extra sleep--even with all the anxiety, I've never felt so rested. Turns out my circadian rhythm loves getting up at 8:00 am, not 6:00.

[saguaro]

Our facility (R&D engineering) is still open for those employees whose work cannot be done from home.  Everyone else is required to telecommute as of March 13 for 3 weeks (at the moment).

What can be done from home varies in my department depending on the position.    In my case it's about half and half.   Telecommuted yesterday but in office today and on Monday.   Workout facility, conference rooms, cafeteria all closed.   Company has indicated that if any confirmed cases / exposure occur in any given facility, they will close it.  So far, nothing.   

Some sliver linings...can get more work done and with our cafeteria closed, gotta brown bag it so saves money.   Company was on this back in late February, already restricting travel, no visitors unless business critical, employees returning from affected countries required to quarantine for 14 days.   They tightened things up as things changed. 

[Fire2025]

Laid off on Friday the 13th.  No notice, no vacation pay, just don't come in on Monday.  I'm fine, happy about the break even, but some of my co-workers are really having a hard time. 

My heart goes out to everyone who is struggling financially do to the pandemic and scared because well.....there's a pandemic.

[Dr. Pepper]

We are open but for emergencies only, no patients are permitted to get elective surgery, and all clinic has been canceled so pretty much nothing to do for the next 2 weeks.

[Laura33]

My firm went full WFH in all offices as of last Monday.  You can come in if you need to, but it's strongly discouraged.  I've been WFH periodically for years as I feel like it, so no change here.  Except as of Tuesday, all my clients disappeared off the face of the earth.  Last Friday, a bunch of projects/deadlines; Monday, finishing stuff that was left over from last week and emailing clients about new WFH requirements; yesterday, dead in the water.  But I still get paid -- if my experience is similar to many others', it's obviously going to hurt the firm's profitability this year, but we have sufficient cash flow for that not to be an issue for some period of time.  And even if this extends and we need to cut our draws, we're fine personally.  So I don't really mind the break, especially since both kids are home now and I want to enjoy their presence and more mellow lifestyle.

My DH is stuck at the office -- he's advanced tech, so most of his stuff requires being on-site; in addition, probably the majority of his work is high-clearance-required, so he and his team legally cannot take anything home to work on.  He's still going in and still getting stuff done, but we'll see how long that lasts. 

[DadJokes]

Working from home through March at the moment.

Wife is a teacher, and schools are out until end of March as well, though I assume that they won't go back this school year. They don't have any way to teach online set up (there are students without computers/internet), though I'm guessing that central office will work on a way to remedy that for the future.

[redhead84]

My company is handling this situation fairly poorly. Sr. management has been running around frantically and having a lot of meetings, but not communicating with staff. We are a manufacturer and the office staff is not set up for WFH so I understand the difficulty of the situation. I have a laptop and could WFH, but the majority of my staff does not have that option. The recent option is alternating weeks of WFH for the staff with laptops. I understand the thought, but it doesn't seem to lower the overall exposure risk.

[Mongoose]

DH just went to 75% work from home yesterday...other 25% he is required to be on site as maintenance for critical equipment. All others are on 100% WFH so he's the only one in the building. No timeline has been given yet other than, "let's see how the rest of this week goes." We run a home-based business and homeschool, so zero changes to me and the kids except that activities (art, piano lessons) are moving to an online format.

I'm 100% glad that we were already homeschooling; just continuing to do our own thing is awesome. The local schools are out but weren't prepared so they've basically sent a few packets home and told the parents to find "online resources" until at least April 15.

[Optimiser]

We are open for business as usual. Everyone is working overtime, even if they are sick.

[ketchup]

I'm still going into the office for now (Chicago suburbs).  I could pretty seamlessly work from home (IT) but most of the rest of the company couldn't (we're a contract service laboratory).

Girlfriend is self-employed and pretty much relies on large gatherings of people for her business, so she's essentially out of work for a few months barring a few low-dollar side projects.

[GuitarStv]

We are open for business as usual. Everyone is working overtime, even if they are sick.

Smells like class action lawsuit from the survivors!  :P

[dcheesi]

WFH encouraged, but our work in R&D often requires access to special equipment. Both Monday and Tuesday I had to go in for one reason or another. Really trying to stay home today, but I know I'll have to go in at least one more time this week to set up access to different equipment.

SO is working from home for the first time today (not counting a brief trial run yesterday evening). It will be interesting, especially since she's on the phone all day.

[alsoknownasDean]

At this stage, optional work from home for all staff.

I'll be heading in to the office most days, as while much of my role could be done remotely with significant changes, currently many of the tasks require me to be there.

Although I certainly won't be taking public transport for a while. Easier for 'social distancing' if I'm not having to share a train carriage or tram with dozens of other people.

[Photograph 51]

I'm sending my patients home with way more Methadone than they should have at one time, per a new company policy to keep them at home and out of the clinic as much as possible.  I'm more worried about my patients overdosing/children getting their medication/patients selling their meds than I am about the corona virus.

On the side, I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to teach a lab class online for the next while.

[Optimiser]

We are open for business as usual. Everyone is working overtime, even if they are sick.

Smells like class action lawsuit from the survivors!  :P

We could theoretically work from home, but we are not paperless, so working from home means coming to the office, making a bunch of copies, taking boxes of files home, bringing the files back and repeat. Also, those who have tried said our software is not running reliably through our VPN.

[ChickenStash]

My department went mostly WFH starting Monday. For the first week they're rotating a few people on-site just in case they need a presence but I suspect that will change. Other departments are still mostly on-site for some reason. Very little of what we do can't be done remotely and our VPN is pretty stable.

It's nice not to drive in but I miss the human contact a little. I suspect I'm going to go stir crazy in a week or two between WFH and most gatherings in the city closed down.

[SpareChange]

I work in a hospital. WFH not possible. Mostly business as usual . They're asking people not to travel overseas, and may look at reducing outpatient services. My hours won't be affected either way.

[hops]

I began working from home last year, so no change there. My wife's a physician at a tertiary hospital and is also med school faculty. Things have been moving quickly for weeks now but really sped up within the last week.

Many providers are being asked to work from home for now (this includes those in self-isolation following travel) but the particulars of the broader telemedicine response are still being ironed out. Travel restrictions have been revised several times, all vacation is now canceled indefinitely, elective surgeries are canceled, more sweeping cancellations (for things like endoscopy clinics) are forthcoming. Medical personnel cannot be farther than one hour away from the hospital at any time. Medical students will be yanked off rotations.

[economista]

I usually WFH two days a week and most of my coworkers do the same. We were told on Sunday that we were "highly encouraged" to go to full telelwork starting Monday, but we could go into the office if we wanted to. Last night we got an email that two of our coworkers have tested positive for COVID-19 and now the building is shut down and we are 100% mandatory WFH. My husband is a stay at home dad for our 5 month old daughter so this is working out really well. No more pumping for me, and he gets a chance to talk to me throughout the day. Lunchtime walks are nice too, and I'm getting more done that I normally would in the office since I don't have the distraction of constant conversations with coworkers.

[OtherJen]

I've been a full-time WFH freelancer for 7 years. Two of the companies with which I work have actually offered more work than usual, which has made up for the third company that has slowed down. So my day-to-day life has been more impacted by the cancellation of volunteer and community events. I've decided to hunker down and work as much as I can.

Husband is a manager in a non-essential retail setting. He's still working full-time. We don't know how much longer that will last, either because he gets sick or the state shuts them down.

[PoutineLover]

I'm working from home for at least two weeks, depending on how things go. A bit challenging since my house isn't ideally set up for it, but at least I'm home alone and have no distractions. And very luckily, I'm still getting paid. My thoughts are with everyone who is struggling and unable to earn money with all of this chaos.

[Raenia]

My office went fully WFH except business critical personnel, which in this case seems to be only those required to keep the manufacturing suite functioning - I work for a pharmaceutical manufacturer, and this plant makes mostly cough/cold medications.  They need to keep the supply chain from being interrupted, as so many people are going to need these products in the coming weeks.  I'm working from home for the time being, but concerned that as the work that can be done remotely dries up (I'm usually working in the lab), they may start dropping hours and people like me may not be paid.

DH is currently still required to go in to work, which we're not pleased about.  He has also been told he has to work the weekend (from home), but starting next week will be WFH 2-3 days per week.  We're concerned because he takes public transit to work, so likelihood of exposure is higher.

We'll survive if I miss a paycheck or two, without having to make any changes.  If it goes on longer than that, we'll need to stop some of DH's ongoing investment contributions to cover the gap.  Worst case if I'm laid off, we can live on only his salary until this is over.

[E.T.]

My spouse and I both got to start WFH now and it's really nice. I wish this had happened for happier reasons but I really like the remote lifestyle. I'm more productive, I can enjoy a lunch walk, I can eat crunchy snacks and I'm better rested from not having the commute. There's no reason for my job to be in a cube farm, hopefully some places will start to realize that and switch to more remote positions. It's good for the environment too!

[MaybeBabyMustache]

We are "sheltering in place" in the Bay Area. Received "recommended WFH" message last week, which was then subsequently bumped up to absolutely do not come to the office unless the company can't run without you being present physically (data center type stuff).

My husband works from the same company. We have a decent sized house, but the layout is challenging for lots of private calls. We also have no WFH furniture (desks, chairs, etc). The kids are also home for the foreseeable future, which is signficantly harder than anything else in the equation.

[Hirondelle]

WFH, coming to work only for some essential labwork (in my case very little).

[pdxvandal]

My dept is WFH beginning yesterday indefinitely. Entire company still trying to come up with an official policy -- there are line workers who can't really WFH. I'm sure layoffs or furloughs are coming soon.

DW has been working from home for almost a year, so we are fairly insulated (for now) from the pandemic. We are some of the lucky ones.

[use2betrix]

I work in oil & gas as a contractor, so oil prices are every bit an impact as much, if not more, than the coronavirus. Major, billion dollar projects are being cancelled by my company due to the oil price crashes.

I have been advised to work from home, however several of my direct reports are required to be on site (site work is not shut down on my projects) so I do feel obligated to be present.

Two of my current projects are slated to go through July, and the other for about 14 months from now. If those hold on, I’ll be on my way to Coast FI at the completion, but if these get shut down now, I’ll have a couple years of hard work before I get to that point (whenever I can find an oil & gas job again).

The good news is, my raise officially was approved today. Also, I was given 3 weeks official paid vacation, didn’t have any before. So, if things shut down, hopefully I could use that as a severance.

I have been in “full on dump emergency fund into the market” the last month, but now that my jobs are looking iffy, I will not be investing beyond my standard $10k/mo or so.

[Arbitrage]

It went in stages, but now WFH is mandatory.  There are exceptions for certain times/events, including something next week for which I'm currently scheduled to travel across the country.  I'm really hoping to avoid that, due to the possibility of being stuck across the country from my family. 

DW is also full-time WFH.  The real challenge is that we are supposed to be full-time schooling our elementary-aged kids from home...while working.  Nevertheless, lucky to be in a situation where my job and income are secure.  DW's job is more tenuous - they wouldn't ever lay her off, but the company could potentially go under if there is a protracted lockdown.

[Livinginthemountains]

I am a small business owner. This is my 20th year anniversary of being in business.  I am a hairstylist. There's no distancing yourself with this job. My state had it's first case as of yesterday. I am praying for a state wide lockdown. This way I dont have to make the decision to close up shop.I am fine to shut down and could survive off my emergency fund for a long time. My fear is shutting down  for a long time coming back to no business. I need to close for everyones safety. It's going to very emotional walking away from something you've worked so hard and long to establish.