I'm going to bump into this next week - I'm the IT support manager at a very large secondary school (1650 pupils, to be exact).
Although I'm self-isolating at the moment (just as well, as I have a cough), I'm meant to be back on Wednesday.
I honestly can't see the point at the moment: we support staff aren't going to be supervising children and the vast majority of what we do can be done from home anyway (as has been the case for the past 3 work days, as we're all self-isolating at the moment).
I'm going to suggest to the head on Tuesday that I maybe come in for one day a week, but that given government guidelines (work from home where possible) and the fact I'm not a key worker (despite the Trust's head of IT insisting I am) it would be prudent for us all to stay working from home.
There are, of course, jobs that could be done on-site (mainly of the mundane sort - replacing keyboards and cables) but they can quite easily be done in the week or two before normality resumes. There's absolutely no point in my view of having to go in to replace a dodgy keyboard in a classrom which won't be used for months!
Hopefully the head will agree with this line of thinking, but we'll see.
Originally Posted by: Retron