Huge crowds had hit tourist hotspots around Taiwan over the long weekend without any social distancing, causing concern that it may have facilitated the spread of COVID-19. On April. 6, companies including Fubon Financial Holding and Cathay Financial Holding are ordering workers who have visited any of the 11 destinations that Central Epidemic Command Center had issued warnings for, to work from home for two weeks.
Employees pass through a thermal scanner and then get their temperature checked on the first day back from the long weekend. Cathay Financial Holding checked whether employees went on vacation during the long weekend and has banned staff that visited the 11 tourism sites on the government's warning list from entering the office on the 6th. The employees must work from home for the next two weeks.
They sent out a departmental questionnaire via Line yesterday. And then, during the pandemic period -- so, I am considering cancelling all my travel plans in the second half of the year.
The company was worried about infection coming back from the long weekend so they informed us that we have to wear masks at all times in the office.
The 11 sites include Alishan in Chiayi, Dongdamen Night Market in Hualien, Guanziling and Hutoupi in Tainan, Cishan Old Street in Kaohsiung, and Kenting. An estimated 1,200 of Cathay's 40,000 employees in the banking, securities, and insurance sectors will be working from home the next two weeks. Fubon Financial Holding has issued a similar work-from-home directive, and one public bank will follow suit.
Based on my understanding, I think there might be one.
Hon Hai has similarly ordered employees that visited any of the 11 sites to work from home for a week starting the 6th, and to not return to the office until they are sure they are healthy.