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Letter: More Burnaby employers need to let staff work from home

Editor: I have seen a lot here and online about employers not allowing their employees to work from home, even if they are equipped to do so.
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From left, provincial health officer Bonnie Henry, B.C. Premier John Horgan and B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix address reporters in downtown Vancouver. Photo Tyler Orton/Business in Vancouver

Editor:

I have seen a lot here and online about employers not allowing their employees to work from home, even if they are equipped to do so.

While I can understand small family-owned businesses (like a restaurant, for example) being unable to do this, I don’t understand it when it comes to larger businesses whose names are known.

If you have the means and abilities that enable you to allow your employees to work from home, let them.

Is money really more important than the health of your employers and their family members? It is an outrage that this is even something that gives employers pause.

You also have to consider the fact that your employees have young children or elderly parents that they may be responsible for caring for, or other family members with health issues.

Does this not matter to any of you either?

Frankly, I am sick to my stomach with the number of employers who seek to be choosing business over lives.

Moe Belinska, Burnaby