Katherine's employer wants everyone back in the office.
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Like, our agency, everyone is forced back into the workplace, even my particular office is even going against the federal recommendation of two days a week in the office, and demanding the entire building come in on one – or sorry, my entire unit come in one day a week. So, complete, full, tons of people coughing, hacking. And then they dropped the mask mandate for our office. And then my particular role, three times a week they want me in the office, and once with everybody else. And I am so scared of what that could mean. I already got sick at work once. If I come in there and there’s people not wearing masks, crowding me on those – one day a week, and I get sick again, I am going to be so mad. And we proved through the first year, year and a half of the pandemic, that the majority of us can work effectively from home. So why then are we being mandated back to the office and will I be one of those people? Workers’ compensation is advocating for me to continue to work from home. My employer is pushing against it. I think that has a lot to do with why they wanted me off work. I think employers really need to start wrapping their head around once a person has been exposed to this virus they are that much more susceptible to get it a second time, a third time.
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