Get Your Facilities Ready for Work
Learning Objectives
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Explain how a workplace is composed of locations and child locations.
- Define location status.
Open Your Doors to Employees, Safely
Before Fetch employees come back to the office or the factory floor, Ellie and her operations team must ensure that the facilities are safe. Command Center categorizes these spaces into two types: workplace locations and child locations. Fetch location workplaces include the Bellevue office and a manufacturing plant in Tacoma, WA.
Using the Command Center, Ellie defines smaller sections of the office and the plant. These smaller spaces within a workplace are called child locations. For the Bellevue building, child locations are each one of the floors. For the plant, they are the various zones in the plant. You can even have locations within child locations like the specific area of a floor or a production line in the plant. Employees are then assigned to the lowest level child location. For example, Ellie’s team is assigned to a specific area of desks, within the child location of the floor.
Change a Location’s Status to Bring Employees Back
Once she defines all the locations, Ellie takes another look at the Command Center. Currently, all of the Fetch offices are hard closed, meaning all employees are working remotely or on paid leave. Next week, Fetch is opening facilities to essential employees. That requires changing the office location’s status to soft closed and the manufacturing plant to reduced density. There are four out-of-the-box statuses that an ops manager can choose from to describe their building’s status.
Open
The site is under no restrictions.
Reduced Density
The site is open, with physical distancing restrictions in place. And a limited number of employees can be present at any given time.
Soft Close
The site is open. Employees are encouraged not to enter the building, but they can still get in and won’t be forced to leave.
Hard Close
Entry to the site is strictly forbidden, and no employees are working on-site.
Since Fetch offices are neither open nor soft closed, both numbers are zero. Three child locations are at a reduced density so Work.com indicates the number and the specific child locations where the employees work.
If Fetch procedures are effective and its employees feel safe and ready to return, Fetch is on track to open at a reduced density in a few weeks.
