Lack of testing, disjointed child care and different supply and demand needs from an industry to industry basis should make returning to work gradual and messy, according to experts and executives.
How the country will go from widespread quarantine to some semblance of normal is still a giant unknown. But returning to work will almost certainly happen in waves, driven by consumer demand and employer desperation, said Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
"If you drum it into everybody's heads that they should be six feet away from each other and then you go back to an office and you're in the cubicles or an open office plan, in particular, that will be creepy for people," he said. "We have to start planning, restarting life," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week at a news conference. "We're not there yet, but this is not a light switch that we can just flick one day and everything goes back to normal. We're going to have to restart that economy. We're going to have to restart a lot of systems that we shut down abruptly and we need to start to plan for that. My personal opinion: It's going to come down to how good we are with testing.
Employers have a duty under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to make sure they provide a safe workplace. But it will be hard for an employee, client or customer to prove they were exposed to COVID-19 at the workplace, rather than the dry cleaner or grocery store, Segal said.
Looking if you can drop and give them 50.. you can you in if not you out
Zero liability if you get sick or die, let’s not get it twisted