Common lunch time, after work socials, ‘check-in’ meetings, team building activities, common work hours… there are many conventions that bring staff and work communities together that will change, and ‘undermine’ (?) the social fabric of previously positive work cultures.
There seems to be a lot of discussion about technology as the answer, but Naomi Klein suggests we could also re-imagine the spaces and the way we work within them:
[Eric] Schmidt is right that overcrowded classrooms present a health risk, at least until we have a vaccine. So how about hiring double the number of teachers and cutting class size in half? How about making sure that every school has a nurse?
Without strong data on the role of children in viral transmission, any discussion on what could happen in schools would be speculative. In the USA, We have time to get the data and make informed decisions before school resumes in Fall.
Thank you Erin for the clarification. Really appreciated your references in your post on risks erinbromage.com/post/the-risks… and your work in general
With current conjecture in Aus about schools collect.readwriterespond.com/education-coro… it has me think that not all spaces are equal & all risks the same