Given the increasing infection rates across the country, it is more a question of when a bank customer or employee will become infected rather than if they will become infected. Reviewing, addressing, and documenting implementation of the CDC guidance will have the dual benefits of decreasing the risk of COVID-19 infection and reducing the risk that the bank will bear liability for infections.
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@ xyp+1cA44TAt You don’t have to look to Israel or England. The CDC decided to stop collecting data about breakthrough cases. God only knows why. However, some states are collecting data that is not well reported. More than 35% hospitalized in Los Angeles county currently are fully vaccinated. The vaccine is not very effective at preventing spreading the illness, specifically the delta variant. Additionally, if 35% hospitalized are fully vaccinated, I’d like to know the definition of “preventing serious illness”, which is what they’ve been saying lately. In slight of all the breakthrough cases the an echo two comment is the patients are “less ill”. These are anecdotes and not data, and the states reporting the actual data do not really back up these anecdotes about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the delta variant.
@drt+1cA44TAt "Go back in on September 9th, vaccinated or unvaccinated."
That is not correct. Anyone who hasn't provided their vaccination status is not reporting on September 9th. In GT&O, it is certainly not true. I know of folks (unvaccinated and vaccinated who have not uploaded status) who have not be invited back yet.
There have been tons of post about RTO. Virus or not, most people wanted to retain WFH. I'm one of them. But let's not pretend that the company cares about our wishes on it. They are bent on packing us in.
Best guess, they are waiting to see who reports. If the number of non-reporting isn't significant (<= 10%), they will coerce compliance or separate people. It's a number game.
You are not a human being at Bank of America. You're a number.
My understanding is that everyone will
Go back in on September 9th, vaccinated or unvaccinated. I think If they were going to change course they would’ve done it by now. It’s plain as day that BM follows everything JD does, so I don’t expect either banks to delay the RTO. It’s really poor judgment and heartless leadership but I guess that’s why they get paid the big bucks, to eff over the working stiffs.
"They are expecting infections", bofa became a testing lab.
True inside info, right now, fresh from this morning (I think they thought of this some time ago but it was made public to me today):
They are expecting infections. They will ensure that the infected person stays home for 14 days when the report occurs. No other action at this time.
Logic here is that there is little risk to the vaccinated. There is an average of 2% risk to the unvaccinated (do note that this risk is changing by the day as more "rare" breakthrough cases occur -- see the numbers coming out of England and Israel).
Question is what they will do with the unvaccinated.... We do not yet know. I am concerned with the extreme decision they might make.