Originally Posted by
Wong Jnr
Interesting one with the company my wife works for.
She works at Marina Bay Financial Centre where there are 3 tower blocks. A case was confirmed at the weekend in tower 1 (Standard Chartered).
My wife works in tower 2 and her company has instructed everybody to work from home for the week. I know of other companies in the same tower block whose offices have not been shut down.
As my wife works for a very large global US company is this a case of over-reaction?
Over-reaction, most likely. Out of place? Not really. A lot of lists of places to avoid because one person caught the virus there are floating around for HK and Singapore (I'm sure other places are as well) sometime in the past...
That said, you're seeing an "over-abundance of caution" with this thing as it is much more contagious... Multiple companies are pulling out of large gatherings to assuage their employees (MWC 2020 for example, LG, Amazon, Sony and others are pulling out or reducing their presence this year because of the virus).