S/O... what has your employer done to manage the pandemic?

I work for a non-profit. We have been working from home since Mid-March. As of July 1st, we are on a furlough every Friday which equates to a 20% pay cut (CEO took 25% cut), with those hours not paid. However, our state unemployment has a program to make up some or all of those lost dollars which we've been approved for. Just waiting to hear how much that will be.

As for vacation, those of us who had more than three weeks on the books were told in April to use some of the time before the end of our fiscal year in June. Usually companies do this to get the liability lower on the books since it is a commitment to have to pay cash out at some point to the employee if the employee leaves or is laid off or terminated. I am hearing from friends who still are working, that they have had to burn vacation as well.

I'm an auditor for a public accounting firm - no cut-backs for me. In mid-March I took my laptop home, was sent a mesh router so that I have internet access in my back-yard if I want it, was given a printer/scanner and I haven't been back since. I worked onsite at a client from March through May - I would request documentation, they would set it in the boardroom at the end of the table when I left for the day and I wouldn't access it until 2 days later. I was literally by myself without seeing another person from 9-5. As an introvert, I was surprised how much that got to me.

Anyway, we just recently gave up our lease and I have been told that I will be working from home at least until next summer. Whole new world.

The only financial change is they might not do 401K matching this year. Our company is owned by a larger corporation who owns many companies. Some of our sister companies did take a temporary pay cut (supposed to be for 3 months, ended up being only 2 paychecks), and some ended up taking a few days of forced vacation over a 2-3 month period of time.

But other than that, it's been pretty minimal. We all work in industries that are either essential (agriculture) or have seen a boon in business due to the pandemic (RV and Marine).

We were sent home on March 11th and haven't been back sense. It'll probably be next summer before we head back as well.

I work for a health insurance company. We went full time work from home for all employees by the middle of March. We were supposed to bring people back into the offices (we have 3 different campuses) in September. That has now been pushed to January.

We are trying to not do layoffs.

ETA: I forgot that our IT department does have 1 person in the office at two of the locations and 2 people on the main campus. You have to have an appointment and wait in your car before you can come in masked.

I work for a large healthcare company - the only change was that everyone had to take a few days of mandatory PTO.

For once in our lives DH is not getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Seriously, we have a track record of if something is going to go wrong or someone is going to get screwed, chances are highly likely it will be us.

Thankfully, this time that is not this case. DH is in logistics with a company that sells PPE so he is busier than ever. He is not able to work from home and the company is shipping massive amounts of orders.

He goes in a little bit earlier in the morning and he had to make changes like his morning "huddle" with his employees now has them all masked up and standing 6 feet apart, so he has to use his military voice to be heard.

His biggest hurdle is getting people to come to work. All of his employees start out as Temps and then after so long transition to full time employees of his company. He has gone through a buttload of temps these last months, moreso than usual. While his company pays more than most of the local companies, the temp workers paid by the temp companies pay less and people have told him they would rather get the covid bonus than a paycheck because the job is, well, work.

The people he does have working for him have really stepped up and worked hard and the company is doing well so his bonus next spring (based on sales) should be significant.

As for me, I was not working before the pandemic started. Back in February I was talking to DH about me starting to look for a job and he said he wanted me to spend as much time as possible with my Dad (he turns 93 in 8 weeks) and enjoy the time together. Then the lockdown started and I went almost 2 months without seeing my Dad.

So as of now I don't know when I will go back to work and have no clue how that will look when I do.

We had a 12% reduction in staff, no new hiring and no raises or bonuses. Majority of folks are working from home. But, if you go into an office you are assigned a group and groups alternate week to week. Masks are required in the office (company provides them along with sanitizer). You have to complete a short health questionnaire each day. .temp check and report any travel. Depending on where the travel was, your exposure or other responses you will be asked to work from home for two weeks.

I work in mortgage servicing so in general my company is busier than ever. We had a dip in pipeline for my specific group a bit earlier this year, but it is picking up again. My company has continued to hire at all sites and remote, match the 401(k) and pay monthly incentives. We can roll over up to 40 hours PTO and then what you roll over eats into your next year's accrual. They didn't change that so people are taking random days here and there to use up some PTO. While we are considered essential, we were wall-to-wall people in cubes in our office building so everyone was transitioned to WFH by mid-April except for a handful of people who need to be in the office. They keep pushing back the return to office date. Currently slated for January-ish. In many ways, I feel busier WFH than when I was in office.

I also work in a law firm. We do personal injury. Business as usual here - remote if you want/need. Getting a big bonus and a raise on 10/1 so clearly Covid has not impacted the firm negatively.

Universal screening & masking. Skype meetings if possible or inperson no more than 10.
WFH if job allows through the end of the year. I bet it will be longer than that. They've started saying how they want ot make WFH part of the regular culture.
No discretionary spending like travel or conferences. No merit increases. Hiring freeze.
Reduction in 403b match.
Voluntary retirement offered to those ages 60 & up.

On the upside, I've saved money on gas, parking, dry cleaning, eating out and childcare. But, I miss seeing my colleagues in person. We are allowed into the office so I went once to pickup some things. It was eerie. There were about 7 out of 100 people there.

I work behind the desk at a friend's day spa 2 days a week. I've told her not to pay me but she still does - it's been rough. Who wants to be in a small treatment room with a stranger for an hour or more? The regulars have come back but we can only be at 50% capacity and it's been really hard. I hope she can stay open. She's made a ton of accommodations to make things safer, but there's only so much you can do. 

I work for a small business. We were laid off from March 24 to May 4 during the SIP order. The owner was the only one in the building during that time and that was just to schedule customers by phone for when we came back. I think he just didn't want to be stuck in his house as he has work at home capabilities LOL. I am in my own office and everyone else is easily able to social distance. The owner provides mask, gloves and cleaning supplies. Raises have been postponed, but bonuses have been plentiful because this is our very very busy season. We have a sign outside that asks you to please call us and let us know you are here and someone will come out to you (masked and gloved). If you don't need to wait for your service you don't need to come in at all when dropping off your vehicle. You only have to come in to make a payment when you pick up and we only allow one customer at the counter area at a time. When they are finished we sanitize the area. We have a large showroom, so anyone that has to wait can do so completely socially distanced from anyone else waiting. We moved tables and chairs into separate areas around the showroom instead of just in the normal waiting area. The employees that move cars into the shop wear masks and gloves while in the customers vehicles.

DH works at a Prison, so they are asked a plethora of questions and their temps are taken everyday before they enter. They have to wear masks. Social distancing is hard, but they have implemented tons of new procedures. The employees that aren't part of the Union have been furloughed one day a week through July and Aug. Negotiations between the union and state for next year's budget are underway and of course the raise they got this year, the state is trying to take back for next year. It happens every single go round, so it's not really any different than any other time. Get a 3% raise this year and next year they take back 2.5% and raise your insurance cost by .5% it's a stupid game in which over the 18 years my dh has been there, I think he's actually only seen 50.00 more a check once everything comes out in the wash.

I typed out a long response and it went poof.

Suffice to say those of you bitching about that bonus while my sister tries to survive on $118 per week can suck it. Just suck it. What assholes. I hope karma gets you.