They are utilizing employees who are lower paid and 60, 65 and plus and identifying them as essential. HOW long will they be essential? Why are they not humane and asking them to stay home during these weeks since their employees are the companies most value assets, as they say??? Oh I forgot, they are low hanging fruit.
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Replying to: As a manager, old people are nothing but a number to us.
If you can say this now during a pandemic imagine what you think, say and do during a non-crisis.
Yes, people are numbers on a spreadsheet, computer printout and headcount projections. And you like those that work for you are those numbers. Working in the business many years has made me wise to understand that we all get our turn at-bat and sometimes we are just left out in outfields when we least expect it.
As a manager, old people are nothing but a number to us. If we could get 90 year old homeless into the call center just to pick up a phone and say hi and send customers around a phone maze until they hang up, we would consider this as meeting our goal.
Yes, there are bonuses for people working in the office.
There are a mixture of employees considered high-risk in my office. Some are legit (cancer is in remission, COPD) but there are some who are too dramatic and won't come in. Those not coming in are still getting paid to stary at home. I would rather stay at home than get $1000 for the month.
The article states "at-risk employees have been sent home". Not true they are still being mandated to go into work. They are the low paid support staff across the nation that have no remote ability and either have preexisting conditions and or are over 60. The top chiefs should take a cue from other companies that have given up their annual salaries for a year to pay back to staff that are sacrificing to go in so their company can continue to exist. Rumor has it they are going to give them 1,000 for going in. They should be given at least double their salary for putting their lives on the line for their fellow employees to keep working and keeping the company afloat.
They also show no remorse:
https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/jpmorgan-traders-feel-pressured-to-report-to-work-during-coronavirus-outbreak/