"We have to go back"

They finally released the return-to-work plan and it's...well. While surveys indicated that 40% of the workforce wanted to remain at home full-time, that's nowhere in the plan at all. Currently from July to September, people are allowed to return to the office if they want and are vaccinated, from September to December people are encouraged to return to the office, and from January every has to come back. People can come either every day or a hybrid three days in, two days at home model, where Monday and Wednesday have to be two of the days in the office. That's certain a way to completely ignore your workforce's expressed preferences!

On the announcement, someone asked 1) Considering the increased transmissability of the Delta variant, will we still not be requiring masks at work as currently indicated in the plan and 2) A bunch of people moved out of state to care for relatives or save money, will they have to move again to one of the listed allowed remote-work states? It's been a few days and there's still not answer to those questions, and considering I have an infant at home and WHO suggested re-masking even for the vaccinated, I'm very curious about the answer to 1. I've talked to people in meetings that moved far away as well, like to Hawaii or Oregon, so 2 doesn't apply to me but I do want to know the answer. Further updates as I receive them.

Laila continues to grow, as babies do. She hasn't fully mastered smiling in response to happy stimuli yet but she's starting to smile at us She's also started to make noise other than breathing and screaming! Nothing more distinct than "wawawawawawa" or "ba ba ba" yet, but that will come. The cooing stage has begun!

She also had her first diaper overflow a few days ago. Babies develop in many ways.

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This is a long weekend! Tomorrow we're going to sit outside with arsduo and friends, and on the 4th we're going to the beach to watch the fireworks. Going to spend some time with my family otherwise since I haven't gotten to do as much of that since I went back to work. They're both asleep right now after Laila (meaning sashagee) had a rough night and sashagee has her second vaccine appointment today. It might be a rough day as well, so they'll need the rest.