We had a meeting about this today at my job, going over the beginning stages of the reintegrating process, when to start, how to implement it, what our feelings are on it, etc. Since I’m on the communications team and work with HR, we are the ones facilitating this for the company. It hasn’t even been discussed with other workers outside of us.
Long story short, me and a few of my coworkers banned together to say there needs to be an option where employees who don’t feel safe and have anxiety about catching the virus, or that don’t have childcare for the summer months can continue to stay remote until vaccines are offered. So my boss has agreed to talk about the possibility of making that an option (esp for higher risk individuals) with our leadership team. Hopefully this will be an option. I don’t ever want to have to go back to the physical office.
And you would think a good amount of remote workers would take that option but tbh I’ve been talking to a lot who say they want to come back to the office. Most of them are white people. They keep saying “I’m such a people person, this is so hard on me.”
My sister said this white woman was trying to implement a program that would require them to have to meet in person, and everyone voted it down in favor of a virtual program, and that ww broke down and started crying on the phone saying she just misses everyone and wants to do it in person and blah blah.
i talked to a woman the other day that said she can’t wait to get back in the office. I heard her three kids crying in the background... And to me those are all personal problems, shyt those are her kids, no one told her to have them. And you’ve got people that would rather go to work than to deal with the kids or the person they married smh. Again I’ve only heard these sentiments from whites at my company.
The rest of us really don’t gaf if we never see a one of them again.
