Working from work
Today, Explained
Vox
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🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The United States is in flux. |
| 0:05.6 | You've got lots of people still being very careful, wearing masks, staying home, avoiding |
| 0:10.4 | crowds, and then you've got lots of people getting back to business as usual, dining |
| 0:15.7 | in, seeing movies, committing to that wedding that was postponed six months ago. |
| 0:21.6 | Between the two are people who are returning to some sort of normalcy but not feeling totally |
| 0:27.1 | comfortable about it. |
| 0:28.6 | Going back to work with lots of reservations. |
| 0:31.5 | And today we're going to talk about those people and what protections they have in this pandemic. |
| 0:37.7 | My name is Jordan. |
| 0:38.9 | I work at a fitness company in California. |
| 0:42.4 | I've been working from home and it's been about six months now. |
| 0:47.5 | Recently I was requested to come to Texas for a business trip with the owner of our entire |
| 0:55.4 | company who was flying in from Europe, traveling during this pandemic. |
| 1:01.3 | It's not something that I've done. |
| 1:03.0 | I haven't been on a flight since March. |
| 1:06.2 | So this was my first flight throughout the whole pandemic. |
| 1:10.8 | I felt like I didn't really have a choice in saying yes or no because it was such an amazing |
| 1:19.7 | opportunity and I made jokes like I'm probably going to die for my job. |
| 1:25.0 | It was a risk I was willing to take, I guess. |
| 1:31.4 | My name is Jen. |
| 1:33.2 | Well for the sake of the story, my name is Jen and I work at a private school in New York. |
| 1:42.0 | So once all of the schools shut down, I was working remotely but middle to late summer, |
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