Since we have unlimited sick days, I feel it would be much better to use these and not go online to work as I have done the past 10 years. If you work from home, even because you are sick, you will likely get flagged as non-compliant in the reporting. Better to just remove Intel from your phone, and do not login with your laptop. Also, make sure you take whatever extra days are needed to quarantine. You do not want to go into the office sick and get dozens of others infected. This is going to be the new norm. Do not work when sick. Children sick? Same. If they are going to fire non-compliant, do not login from home when you are taking personal/sick days. Senior Management do not care about work life balance because they make 7 or 8 figures. They are compensated not to care. For the rest of us it is back to 10-12 hour days with commute and 10pm meetings.
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OP is wrong, there are no "unlimited sick days."
If you’re sick, taking a 4 hr nap will benefit you more than it will hurt Intel (it probably won’t hurt Intel). It might be better for Intel that you not work while having fevers, headaches, etc. Also, most engineers can probably work from home for special circumstances as they could before COVID unless they were scheduled to be at a tool. Intel needs to do better at not letting technicians come to work sick. Do they have paid sick days?
Will treat it like I used to. Sick day or work from home depending on how I'm feeling
Did everyone somehow forget that 5 days a week in the office was perfectly normal until 2020? How is this such a huge issue, get your a-s in the office.
I don't believe OP will be working at Intel in the near future.
Honestly - once the goals are well defined and accountability is established,it doesnt matter sick days or not or how many.
The system will ensure to squeeze productivity out of you
If I come in and somebody obviously has Covid or the flu I'm packing up my stuff and WFH
Technically salaried employees only get 10 sick days a year. Abuse of this will probably lead to performance management or being told you should take medical leave...