Some of Canada’s biggest employers have begun imposing restrictions on staff and are crafting alternative working arrangements to ensure business continuity as the coronavirus continues to spread in North America.
At online retailer Shopify Inc., meanwhile, employees have been told to say home if they feel unwell or have travelled to a “high risk” region. Non-essential work travel is being cancelled and, last week, the company announced it was pulling the plug on Unite, its annual developer and partner conference due to COVID-19 concerns.
The enhanced measures come as the United States saw its ninth death from the coronavirus on Tuesday, and as the number of reported cases in Canada has continued to climb. There have now been 30 confirmed cases of in Canada — 20 in Ontario, nine in B.C. and one in Quebec. “They said that I’d been on a long flight, more than 15 hours, in a closed space, and I should just stay at home for the next 14 days in case I had contracted something,” said the employee, who declined to be named or to name her employer because she wasn’t authorized to speak on internal company policy.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce told the Post on Monday that non-essential business travel by air requires approval by senior management, and that it was a recent policy. Mark Satov, business consultant Business consultant Mark Satov believes that at least in Toronto, the rush to encourage employees to work from home might be a slight overreaction.
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