Yesterday work announced that they are completely shutting down until the 30th in order to sanitize the entire place. We are able to work from home today and tomorrow, but we have to take PTO next week (Mon-Wed.; Th.-Fri. are holidays). Lame, but sure... it's nothing new.
This is a response to employees getting COVID. I don't know the extent, but I do know one person had it maybe a month or so ago, but has been back at work for the past couple of weeks. Another co-worker just got it and has been out of work.
We have been open this entire time, but haven't enforced mask-wearing which is dumb IMO. We started with a split WFH/at-work schedule, but of course the higher-ups required us to fill out detailed timesheets. We've slowly transitioned to having more people in the office than home, which again is pretty dumb. I've been working from home as much as I can.
There has been a sign-up board near the executive area where people can sign up to get haircuts - they have someone come in. Cool.
About a week ago, HR sent an e-mail stating that they were going to have a physical trainer on-site, and that people could sign up to work with them and use the gym (which is small). For safety reasons, the sessions would be limited to just the trainer and four people... but with five people in that gym you cannot maintain 6' of distance. I haven't heard that that is canceled, but I really hope it is.
For a company run by really smart engineers, we sure do a lot of dumb shit.