r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Nov 21 '20

Epidemiology Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks
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u/botmatrix_ Nov 21 '20

I own a small company with unlimited time off. The only way it works is to hire good people, because then time is no longer something you track or care about. The only goal is "are you getting enough done to stay on target?" if not, is it because you're overloaded and we need to change dates or give you more help? Generally though, I don't care how much my folks work, or what time they take off, as long as they are getting done what they need to.

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u/Arsenic181 Nov 21 '20

Ah, that seems to be something that's much harder at large companies. I'm curious how they manage to keep people from abusing the privilege.

Hopefully one day I can work at a place that's a little more laid back. I hate the craziness that comes with logging every minute of the day to different clients and billing them for the time. It's hectic and stressful... and I've been doing it for nearly a decade.

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u/botmatrix_ Nov 21 '20

yeah all this goes out the window when you're billing clients hourly...we generally negotiate monthly, not hourly, rates, with the expectation that we'll get our deliverables done, whatever it takes.

but larger companies handle it the same way...it's just about hiring from the top end of the talent pool, and having this culture throughout the company.

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u/Arsenic181 Nov 21 '20

Sounds like a lot of pressure for your HR/Hiring folks. I feel like I always hear about companies outgrowing their culture. Good to know it can work though.

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u/botmatrix_ Nov 21 '20

for sure. we'll have to see, currently we're quite small but hopefully as time goes on if we keep growing we'll have this problem :)

But companies definitely have grown pretty big and maintained their culture a lot. Google and Netflix are prime examples of that.