Work for a private civil engineering company but seconded to a Government project. Feeling slightly peeved that my stricter parent company guidance seems to be over ruled by less rigorous government guidance. Go figure. At least they seem to accept that I may have stricter requirements given my wife has reduced resistance due to cancer treatment. Scary times in that respect.
Both of us work for the local authority. We have to be prepared to WFH and make sure laptops are connecting etc. Obviously self isolate if unwell.
I'm an outdoor access officer so life will go on without much drama. My wife's an occupational therapist so they will struggle as they have pretty infirm people who need one to one assistance.
The fly in the ointment here (Shetland) is that the schools are shut from Monday so there will be big numbers of people having to be home to look after kids. Pretty much all clubs and events are cancelled too. We had 11 confirmed cases in a population of 22,000 on Friday, but as they're not testing the numbers will be much higher.
National Arts Company - Our season was already weighted towards the end of the year, just in time for CVirus wave 2... Community projects, Tours, International Travel eeek! Continuing as normal for the moment, but I predict a quiet year for us, a terrible year for all the freelancers and probably we write off and reschedule everything and just do a lot of maintenance and internet pod casting.
My eldest is 16 and is working her butt off currently for exams to start in a little over 6 weeks and while I keep telling her she’ll be rewarded for her work now and in future and also that it isn’t that important….. to her it’s massive.
She will be rewarded...
1st scenario is schools stay open and exams run as normal. She'll do well and get good grades.
2nd scenario is schools shut short term, she carries on revising, but many lazy students don't, she gets good grades and potentially higher than expected as grades are worked out in in relation to overall achievement.
3rd scenario is that schools shut longterm and exams are postponed until later in the year. Result same as scenario 2.
4th Scenario is that schools shut longterm and students get their predicted grades. Again if she's worked hard then her PDs should be good and she comes out on top again.
Senior outdoor instructor employed by a (very) large national charity.
If schools stop sending us kids then we’ll spend a few weeks fixing kit, riding bikes and drinking tea I guess. After that I would think we’d be redeployed to other duties on the estate I work on. Plenty of footpaths to fix.
Weird times, can’t work from home but I have fairly high hopes that I have a good and fair employer. Very happy with my direct line management up to regional level so I think I’ll be ok.
Air traffic control. Very worried. Downturn in traffic even before CV. Regional airlines going bust is going to have massive implications on the smaller airfields. Belfast City, Southampton etc very concerned about colleagues’ futures there.
I imagine some bigger airfields-Glasgow for example are going to suffer massively due to Jet2 stopping flying to Spain. En-route traffic still holding up but way down on this time last year. Next few weeks could see some vast changes in my industry.
Construction here lots of self employed subbies on site so poss not going to self isolate unless forced nothing from office ! I’m feeling a bit rough atm may need to SI mrs g teaches she’s been off 2days this week cough /flu like achy is it a coincidence that some kids she teaches were skiing at half term ...north Italy and were back in schools after hols
More worried about new contracts due to the other big thing B..
Working in holidays it’s all going to rat poo. Continental bookings to Italy not happening, Spain looks like its next, France shortly afterwards and Austria/Germany who knows. We guess that it will be flat for 2 or 3 months and then we may see a domestic rush. We may have nowhere to place them if the hotels are all shut/bust.
Environmental & process chemist on a major gas project for Israel. Job security looks better here than other oil & gas projects as we're keeping the lights on in Israel as well as at least part of Jordan and Egypt, and gas hasn't taken quite the hammering that crude has over the last couple of weeks. Life is fairly normal here though there are small concessions such as catering crew serving food rather than everyone helping themselves, random temperature tests, etc. Will be changing soon enough though, all relief crews have to go through 2 weeks quarantine on arrival in Israel and that quarantine has to be at a residential address at the moment - hotels not allowed - so that's proving a headache. That and the ever-dwindling number of flights entering/leaving Israel means those of us here might be here for a while longer. I'd be surprised if I get home before May. Should be home last week of March.
My wife is a social worker. Job had slowly turned to shit over the last few months so last week she applied for and was granted a 2 year career break, due to finish up at the beginning of May. I think she should just knock it on the head now because a) her work have never been particular good at looking after their staff even at the best of times, and b) I can see schools closed by the end of next week so she'll need to be at home for the kids.
Gigolo catering for the elderly. Work’s really dried up
Gigolo catering for the elderly. Work’s really dried up
Can't imagine it was ever really that moist
I'm a "freelance" tv cameraman working mainly on sport......so I'm F......ed basically. We were all cacking ourselves with IR35 just around the corner, but this could be the end of a lot of individuals, and worst, some of the big facility companies we work for too. I've got my last job tomorrow, then I haven't got a single days work full stop. If HMRC are kind, I can last a good few months, but if they start banging on the door demanding payment, its a couple of months and then I'm in big trouble.
I work in the aviation industry... it's not good at all! we're looking at redundancies, unpaid leave, wage and pension cuts and new working hours... It's going to be a long 3-6 months and even beyond that, my employers are predicting that it could take a number of years for it to return to pre virus levels of passenger numbers.
Micro Brewery
we are screwed in reality
looking to use the downturn to re--locate and shoot for a rent holiday, smalle runit, full SBR relief etc
I work in large format print if all the events etc are cancelled I could possibly end up homeless. Statutory sick pay is not going to cover my rent and bills so something will have to give. Beyond concerned.
Research chemist. I'm high enough up that I do t spend much time at the bench. Everyone who can has been asked to WFH where possible to thin out people on site.
It would all be fine but my last day is Friday and I start a new job in April.
Feeling vulnerable. No notice/redundancy or real benefits during probation. Engineering and coatings based so more affected by a recession than the virus. I'm nervous.
Can live off one wage and no kids so we can easily get by cutting back a bit. Will probably be saving a bit of money on holidays in the next 6-12 months anyway. Going to reign in non essential spending till I have more certainty.
I’m in aviation (pilot). I hope I’ll be okay in terms of job retention, due to a combination of skills and other factors, but I know many who are very concerned indeed. It’ll be a tough year with lots of adjustments and disruption however. There might be unpaid leave or pay cuts and voluntary redundancies across the board.
No idea. Our senior management insist we're cut to the bone and barely making money, and if that's true then this is going to be trouble, because there's no way it doesn't hit our revenues for the next 4 years- this year's recruitment is in tatters. We were already seriously worried about brexit.
It's just, I really don't believe them, because they're the sort of management that say "we need to cut costs and it's up to you do to it" and also "we're spending millions of quid on a new building which will probably lose us money but will look amazing". And also "we need to be more efficient" and "we're cutting resource at the early and more important stages of proceeses, and then we will throw twice as much at the next stage in a panic when it turns out cutting resources has an effect". So who knows.
Manufacturing here, production team. Office staff have been told to be prepared to WFH where possible so take laptops home every night as a precaution. Business travel stopped, which is a problem as we sell, install and service a pretty unique product worldwide and Pharma is a big market for us.
Production staff have been issued with "hospital grade" anti-bac, anti-viral gel and been told to wash our hands more and not touch our faces. Attempts to keep delivery drivers away from the workforce aren't working as all the regulars assume it doesn't apply to them and several have got stroppy that they can't use our toilets any more.
Suspected exposed to a sufferer or travel to a hot spot results in a 14 period of self isolation on full pay, WFH where possible.
Self employed in the film and TV industry. Jobs are getting cancelled almost as soon as they are announced. My bread and butter is ads and theres several factors in the cancellations - one being the practicalities of filming as they tend to be international affairs in terms of crew and clients so travel restrictions in other countries are as much of a factor as they might be here.
Another is companies aren't going to be able to get insurance for shooting - you have to insure against factors that would delay or extend a shoot - such as bad weather - and to be able to guarantee that you can finish what you started. Nobody is going to offer to insure that in the face of a pandemic and changing government polices.
On top of short term practicalities like that the knock on effect of the cancelation of big sporting events etc is the advertising slots that the ads would be made for vanish with them.
For bigger film projects the discouragement and restrictions on things like 'going to the cinema' is going to stifle production and also leave companies that have just invested millions in the production of a film with their arse in their hands because the route to sales in distribution will vanish.
It comes right in the middle of a boom in production in the UK - 6 weeks ago I was on a course intended to encourage crew to step up into new roles (or across from other sectors into film) because the crisis facing the industry was there were about 30,000 too few crew to service the sector at the level of production we've been seeing in the last year or so.
Suddenly theres going to be far too many crew - elbows are going to get a bit sharp.
Personally I have other strings to my bow and also have always endeavoured to keep my overheads low so I can live pretty leanly when I need to. But I can expect some pretty fundamental shifts in the dynamics of the sector I work in and probably a bit of a re-focus of my work back towards the public sector / public realm work I used to do before the Tories ****ed it.
I work in maintenance of a large supemrket chain, I can't work from home, wotks carrying on as normal for now.
Work at a college, initally yay 2 weeks WFH but...
We are going to be weeks behind with lessons, can you see 16 year olds bothering to work at home? (Most wont).
But all work needs to be assessed by july.
We have English and Maths exams comming up.
If exams are delayed/ cancelled how will we manage the applicants at enrollment.
I've got some side work validating qualifictions for schools and colleges, cant do that if no one at school which will mean they cant claim certificates, see earlier note about applicants.
And thats if we only have two weeks off (i've heard two weeks added to easter break giving 4 in total) any longer things just get worse, i can see lessons upto august.
I've been WFH for quite a few years now, so no change for me. The muscles in my right arm are quite impressive hence my username.
Quite harrowing reading the replies so far.
Bus development/management for local leisure/cultural trust. Already equipped to WFH and spent most of last week forward planning inc a pecking order for the redistribution of laptops to those deemed most vital. But a large number of roles in the organisation are frontline service provision - lifeguards, gym instructors, librarians, etc - where WFH isn’t an option.
However, wife is a NHS A&E consultant hence my WFH will be limited by bored 5yr and 7yr olds once schools shut.
High probability of whole family getting CV via wife’s work (she expects) 🙁
UK branch of a big US bank. The bank will definitely survive.
Many teams who need to be onsite are splitting 2 weeks on 2 off.
My small team (application development and 2nd line support) can all work from home. I was supposed to be in office all week next week for some conferences on future projects, but we’re doing it over the phone now.
Not ideal, but we’ll get over it.
Mrs Dubs is a secondary teacher. She’s looking forward to an extended Easter Holiday...
I work from home, just not my own home, as a self employed stove fitter.
I'm inundated with work, but I'm expecting supply of goods to interfere with that as time goes on.
Schools shutting and a nurse wife might also mean cutting days anyway.
Thankfully my overheads are minimal, and there's money in the bank. I really worry about the effects of the virus on several people close to me, both physically and financially though.
Actuarial pricing person for big private health insurer.
Interesting times. I'll leave it at that
Teacher, currently no change but it's panic stations for exam classes. Been told they need another exam next week in case. I'll be writing an exam on Monday then.
OH police officer has to do home visits.
There's no current plan for any changes to work for either of us.
Me too. I’m on leave at the moment so haven’t seen the reality of the lower traffic levels first hand yet but expect it to be painfully quiet at times. Which will obviously ultimately mean less of us.
Losing Flybe had already made a very noticeable difference, I just hope the likes of TUI & Jet2 can survive.
Freelance press photographer selling images regionally, across the UK and internationally. Very, very busy at the moment (this is a perfect storm for the media) . I don't cover sport only news, but many other photographers who shoot football for a living are very worried.
Being based in Hong Kong I guess we are a little ahead of what most of you are experiencing on the work front.
I work for an international finance company as a project manager in the technology side, mostly the delivery of new office spaces or relocation's for India, Japan, Australia and China.
For Hong Kong we have had some serious social disruption for the 2nd half of 2019 which meant we were for some period forced to work from from home plus most of my projects are in other countries were I do not usually get to travel to so remote working, whether office or home, is very well ingrained and we are provided the tools to manage.
The company have also segregated teams to minimize the chances of any cross-infection with certain teams having access to certain floors only and some members just not allowed into the workplace at all. It is expected that people in separate teams do not mix even socially and that seems to be being adhered to.
There is of course a complete travel ban and even if I did need to travel I would now be subject to 14 days isolation on return to HK.
For the work itself, projects directly affected are just on hold with shifting restart dates there is some confusion, in China especially, on what restrictions are in place and what regulations need to be met (both national and local government plus landlords) to enable workers access to site. We expect projects in other countries to be similarly affected as the virus takes hold, in my case I am expecting this to be the case for both India and Australia.
In China I expect everything to be back to, as close as possible, normal by mid-April but I suspect the downturn in the financial markets will have a greater affect on my long term employment than this 'blip' caused by COVID-19.
Specialist courier here, no chance in hell of working from home. If we stop doing our job it will be headline news and I'm genuinely not joking when I say that the general public will panic.
I'm on holiday this next week and my bosses were begging me to cancel it, same with my week off in April. We have very little capacity for mass absenteeism at the best of times plus an ageing workforce due to driving license requirements ruling out a lot of people who passed their test after 1998 (C1, removal of grandfather rights) so we could be hit incredibly badly.
I run/own a food business with my wife. We have about 20 staff.
We are expecting a very difficult time ahead. We have already seen a drop in footfall which is only going to get worse.
For now we are open, with lots of extra hygiene measures in place. We don't know how bad it's going to get, or for how long. We'll do whatever it takes to keep the business going, and hopefully not have to go as far as redundancies.
Many independent food/drink businesses are going to go under, no doubt about it.
Those hit hardest will be those that have no daytime or takeaway trade, or who aren't able to diversify.
I implore everyone here to spend money with their favourite businesses if they want them to still be there in 2 months time.
On top of all this we are having a baby on Tuesday. Timing is not good!!
Commercial solicitor. I can work from home fine but after the initial rush of people asking what their contracts say about this situation I suspect that a lot of projects will be put on hold meaning that they don't need anyone to advise on them.
More interestingly my firm was acquired about 10 days ago and we're currently going through tupe/redundancy consultations and face to face meetings about integration. That process will become rather more challenging if people aren't in the office - a lot of the support staff being made redundant don't have remote access/laptops and need to finish/hand over work before they leave.
Work as a software developer for one of the big tech companies.
Everyone been told to WFH (if they can do their job remote) until further notice, April at earliest. I've been 3-days-a-week remote for 2 years so not much different for me.
Feel like it won't really effect me too much but it's really worrying reading the replies to this thread. Good luck to everyone
My wife and I are both Police Sergeants in a small rural Force.
Worrying times ahead - we are already cut to the bone (wifey had one Police car for 350 square miles last night) and with sickness predictions that will get lots worse. Likely they will have to redeploy all the shiny-arsed office dwellers into doing some real work for a change.
Lots of talk about cancelled rest days, 12 hour shifts etc, but with two toddlers at home that won’t be easy / possible for us.
Sadly, our workload will only increase. The feral underclass will carry on as normal, mental health (often 70% of our work) may increase and bored couples stuck at home will argue and fight.
The talk in the media of extra powers to detain those infected is simply farcical - we don’t have the capacity to deal with current workloads, let alone rounding up everyone with a cough.
Things change fast. That me now stranded in Israel. Flights are available to USA every 2 weeks, but from there I'm no better off cos I still can't get to UK. We're to be segregated from Israeli nationals too. What fun.
I got an email telling me to buy some antibacterial wipes and use them on door handles and other regularly used surfaces every shift change. Also I have to use my shoulder, feet or elbow to open doors.
Fair to say, given previous threads, I have zero confidence in senior management dealing with this competently.
I work for the local transport authority, so public transport but not direct delivery. We’re very fortunate as we get a guaranteed income from the local authorities so financially we’ll be fine. The local bus and tram operators though could well go the wall if passenger numbers collapse. We pay them subsidies for pensioner and disabled travel but it’s only to cover their costs so I can see some of the smaller bus companies struggling very quickly.
Civil service here, possibly that we will get redeployed from shiny-arsed office dwellers into doing some real work for a change (supporting front line police most likely) bit of a logistical ‘mare that may be beyond our managers and my job is very niche and not sure if they’ll send me off to do some work or not. Not able to work from home, all the teams I’ve been on before banned wfh. Mrs Kilo is a director in the city, they are going to one week wfh one week in office. Major issue will be commute in, not sure how healthy the tube will be.
I can happily work from home as a Project Manager in the Environment Agency. What will massively impact mine and everyone else’s capacity to do so is our atrocious IT.
All our laptops are 2012 or earlier and we’re on Windows 7. Some poor decisions have delayed the windows 10 rollout to 2021 or later. All our suppliers are trying to work with sharepoint, Office 365 & Skype to keep projects moving, computer says no.
Went self employed doing chip timing for races at the back end of last year. Currently kicking myself repeatedly for doing so. So far this weekend heard from 3 events that I was due to time in May telling me that they're no longer going ahead, and suspect tomorrow I'll be hearing from a lot more.
Construction here ( Major earthworks company)
Obviously can't work from home so can see me being I'm trouble in a couple of weeks.
I work for the local transport authority, so public transport but not direct delivery. We’re very fortunate as we get a guaranteed income from the local authorities so financially we’ll be fine.
Transport here as well but sub-national, not local. Financially fine as we're funded by DfT. Our IT is mostly very good (sadly the same can't be said of many people's ability to use it to its full potential...)
Much as the organisation likes to shout about agile workforce, remote working etc it does make life a whole lot more complicated and time consuming than it needs to be.
However that's relatively small fry compared to some on here - sympathies to those who are worse off.
I'm an ANP and have been reassigned to one of the mobile testing car's to whip around and test folk for the virus as required. I half expect at some point to be back on a ward as things get worse.
Main issue for me would be schools shutting, and the impact of childcare.
