Get ready for masks,temp. checks
Everyone’s wondering what the office workplace will be like when employees begin coming back.
At first, it will look a lot like it was just before Gov. Gina M. Raimondo issued a stay-at-home order on March 28. Only employees who need or want to be in the office will initially come back in most cases, if a company’s technology will allow it.
Common-sense advice such as encouraging handwashing, limiting personal contact and telling sick employees to stay home will again be routine. But that shouldn’t be enough for businesses intent on making their workplaces as safe as possible.
Masks are likely to become standard office attire, at least in common areas, for the foreseeable future.
And many businesses will no longer leave it up to employees to let them know they aren’t feeling well. Some have already begun taking the temperatures of workers and visitors.
Such changes should now be seen as part of the cost of doing business in a pandemic, for those lucky enough to still be working.