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I was expecting mention of increased transmission due to return to office policies. That certainly happened to me. Didn’t get Covid until some coworkers decided to come to work sick and I had no recourse but be at work with them. They said they just had allergies at the time and later admitted it was Covid. Infuriating.

Management was entirely WFH at that point so they had no visibility into who was showing up sick.

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Although I haven't seen any transmission from RTO requirements where I'm at, I would assume that it would fall as a symptom of the overall lack of autonomy that the mandates create.

Management still have no visibility, because there isn't a field in the resignation form for "you create a terrible environment with your open plan office".

Presenteeism or 'Working While Sick' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenteeism#Health_factors

Note! Edit to point too; 'Health Factors'

How dare they breathe the air and spread their highly transmissible virus, like has happened for eons! Then again, why would you choose to breathe in their sickness? Were you not wearing 3 masks and keeping 3 meters distance? Did they make you come to work? Call the tribunal, we must get to the bottom of this, as soon as we've uncovered what causes rectal itch from the office chairs!

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