Unfortunately, no. I work at a university and, while face-to-face classes are suspended for 2 weeks (to give faculty time to transition to online if necessary) staff and administration will carry on as usual. At least we won't have students coming back from spring break with possible contamination.

Nope. We never ever ever shut down. Not for weather, illness,holidays. Never.

Not as of Friday but we are making preparations for when the number of cases in the area increases from the current 6 cases in the metro. They did split up our network operations center personnel between the regular location in our HQ and the emergency backup location located in a local underground cave complex. They don't want all of those people all cooped up in the same room breathing the same air.

My company will be closed for two weeks.

Nope school will be in session Monday morning. DD#1 is working from home 'until further notice'. They put a plan in place two weeks ago so she was forewarned. It's a county Government job. I find it ironic our Governor isn't shutting down the State Capital...but the counties are closing their doors !!!

Hospital, so no. They're down to essential personnel though. So many of us are working from home for weeks. Admin folks like me, for instance.

DH's announced mandatory work from home yesterday for their many thousands of employees.

I work for a small company and work remotely 4 days a week already. I imagine we will go full remote but the ceo hasn't announced anything yet. I won't be going in on Monday regardless in the off-chance my tiny cold is something else. Not worth the risk.

I am self-employed so no work = no income :-( Fortunately, due to the time of year, I only have a couple of client visits scheduled over the next couple of weeks and will be doing the bulk of my work from the safety of my own home. But it is rapidly moving into my busy season, so we shall see how business is impacted going forward.

We're retired and have a few lease clients to manage online. NO risk.

My son-in-law is a partner web developer so his teams are working from home.

My daughter is a nurse liaison, an advocate nurse for hospice & oncology patients. Her work group has moved to online and phone support for patients and family members. She's working 12 hour days from home.

Many of us are hourly so no work means no income also. When schools close teachers get paid but no one else, janitors, secretaries,paras, cook staff. Hourly wages are common in the USA.

According to what VP Pence just said in the press conference, hourly employees will be paid.

There are also many employees whose status is "exempt" under the labor laws. Those with exempt status are not paid hourly but rather on a salary basis, so much per month. But it's the same for many - no work, no pay.

Employees who are in essence locked out of work in jobs that can't be done remotely may all the same get some relief using sick days, vacation days, or special employer programs for the unusual circumstances. Many self-employed people can work remotely and would be doing so anyway if customer sites are closed.

Hopefully most people will get through this both financially and medically.

No. I work in the transportation/shipping industry.

Not work....but.... I joined three different yoga classes around town. All three are closed temporarily.

Retired so no regular work. My son and DIL work at a large local hospital in admin so will continue going. The hospital is gearing for a 30% absentee rate when the fertilizer REALLY hits the ventilator.

I'm retired but was going to look for some part time work - that may have to wait, unless it can be done remotely. DB will be working from home for the next few weeks, as Sony has closed many of its offices for cleaning. However, they will still be making shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy (and possibly movies) but without live audiences. Kevin said that so far this is not as bad as when Sony had the cyber attack a few years ago.

Thankfully I am getting paid for time off. The dealers and servers will be hard. They will get their base pay but no tips. Tips are huge percentage of their pay.

No, and not going to happen because I work in healthcare. We all did apply for at home work. No response back yet. Probably not going to happen knowing how slow the government works.

One of my exchange students in living in Madrid, works at a hotel, but is working from home now. They only have 2 weeks supply of food in their apartment. She said it is crazy there too, people buying everything off the shelves.

My daughter said Cheesecake has cut a bunch of shifts including hers and is closing every other table so people aren't sitting right next to each other. I feel bad for her. Both her jobs are server jobs.

Mom's memory care is closed to visitorsb so that part of my "job" is closed.

DH works from home but has rescheduled some client visits because they are working from home.

DS' employer is working on ways to keep staff productive. He will do part of his job from home next week but the nature of his job is that that work might not be productive.

A number of our Canadian media that had live audieces are going empty these days. Sports outfits that usually have major audiences the same.

Some places are banning gatherings of over 250.

I wonder what about having greatly reduced audiences, with one chair being filled, then two empty and another filled, with one or two empty rows, then another with one in three chairs occupied.

Or perhaps three empty spaces in row one, with someone in row two or three filling the chair behind the middle empty one in the first row.

Just had a call from an active church member suggesting we try to fill every other seat tomorrow: no communion, with groups coming to stand at front to receive a chunk of bread pulled by hand by minister to hand to each, who then dips it into a goblet of grape juice carried by a server ... and no coffee, with possible contamination of mugs, cookie trays, etc.

We have a meeting coming up on Tuesday where about 8 to a dozen sit around 4 tables pushed together to discuss ideas suggested by the various articles in our denomination's related magazine and we were doing some thinking as to what to do about that.

ETA: After church on Sunday we had a meeting and decided to shut down for three weeks, with proviso to discuss with A A, who meet here Sun aft and Thur eve, to see whether such would be too detrimental to their program.

Today , Mon, prov. govt. ordered bars, restaurants and other meeting places to shut down, including churches. Schools on Mar. break this week, ordered to remain closed for 2 weeks after that - 10 days plus to remain at home - in case of illness having crept up during the break week.

ole joyful

We're going to LiveSteam church tomorrow. No point in risking anything by going in person

Our church cancelled all worship and events thru April 1st. Leadership has been working on a livestreaming capability; tomorrow will be the rollout of that. Hope it goes well but won't be surprised if there are glitches since this is new to us.

Talked to our neighbor today. He and wife are both instructed to work from home as much as possible for the next couple weeks. They have an 18 month old daughter, and he was so grateful that this virus is not as hard on little kids. They are also taking 'social distancing' very seriously, especially with one confirmed case in our own small city.

I hope the crowded stores now, are an indication people really do intend to stay put for a while. Because NO ONE has been vaccinated for this virus, NO ONE has immunity. Our WHOLE HERD is susceptible!

Joyful, our church requested no intincture last week, lest one‘s fingers enter the wine. So if you didn’t want to drink from the chalice, and didn’t want to intinct, they reassured that the full presence was still in the wafer. They live-streamed the service, too (which had a side benefit: when I got home I brought up the recording and could hear my group perform! I’d never heard us before, and it gives me some things to work on . . . when Services resume.)

Part of me wishes they would close my work. Crazy day. Had a few, very few breaks in the massive calls. 99% were people with respiratory/cold/flu symptoms or just asking what they should do about the virus. One woman screamed at my coworker and called back and screamed at me.

Hospital, so no. It remains to be seen if elective surgeries will be canceled. My husband was going to have hernia surgery on April 3rd, but he’s canceling it. This week should be interesting as to how many patients self cancel if we are still doing surgery. It’s a small hospital, no brain or heart surgeries, no OB.

While at work today they announced that our county has ordered we shelter in place beginning tonight at midnight through April 7th. Three weeks of unpaid vacation.

I closed my business.

Sue

I work in the HQ of a railroad. Yesterday they began splitting up our network operations center personnel between our HQ and a emergency backup site. They also told half the remaining staff (including everyone over 60) to start working from home immediately and the rest will probably start working from home soon as well. I was on the work from home list so I'm working in my PJs today.

I cancelled all my client appointments for the time being. It just seemed the prudent thing to do. Most were very understanding and agreed rescheduling at some point in the future made sense, given current conditions. Only one gave me the impression that postponing our meeting would be an inconvenience. I am assuming she is not paying much attention to the news :-)

Amylou my job is like yours. We NEVER close so this is extraordinary measures.

kathsgarden, I'm sorry you're having to work so hard and taking a little abuse as well. Hopefully your hospital can hire more nurses?

I've shut it down as of last Thursday. I cancelled all of my cleaning and dog training and walking services. I'm self-employed as is DH.

This is going to be very difficult financially. We live essentially paycheck-to-paycheck. In short order we will have no money to pay bills let alone extras. That is our stark reality.

We however hopefully won't get the covid19.

...and that there is always our cars to live in 😗. Joking not joking. People do that here.

Our lives are more important than anything. Where there's life there's hope. Stay healthy and safe everyone.