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I’d also add that by practicalities I mean two parents being told to wfh, kids being off school trying to do lessons from home using Skype and not enough computers at home to go round, let alone private spaces to use them.
Ramsaye-
I get the practicalities.. I work from home at least a day every week. This is why I said "if a firm can operate".
I mean, if you can't practically work from home in such a situation then presumably working from home isn't an appropriate DR response. Otherwise you are talking about how much efficiency you could lose in either scenario and making a decision based on that.
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Also, if you have young children you can't just leave them to rampage and both just WFH, one of you needs to be parenting and the other working.
MrSweary
NurseHolliday
I get that from a disaster recovery perspective but it makes less sense from a people not passing on the virus to fellow humans perspective. Those in the office aren't separated, only those wfh so wouldn't you want the isolation period to be closer to the amount of time it takes the virus to manifest?
Anyway, just speculating - I would have though that if a firm can operate with staff wfh then why bother with anyone being in the office? Of my team we could all work from home indefinitely without any degredation of performance (probably the opposite). They will probably still go with the week shifts option because... well, who knows.