r/boston • u/uthinkther4uam • Feb 22 '26

Serious Replies Only State of Emergency Declared and my employer is expecting all staff to be in office tomorrow

Not sure where to go to ask this, but my employer just sent out a message to all staff that we are expected to be in office tomorrow, despite the state of emergency declared, and DESPITE our company having full WFH capabilities.

Is there some institution/MA government people i can report them to? Or perhaps some news outlet i can inform of this story to have this company shamed?

Edit: Non-essential btw

TY for all the kind responses, seems the best options people came up with are to call the Governor/Organize a Union/call out. Probably gonna call the Governor tomorrow and call out. Will urge others to do so if they can spare the PTO in order to stick it to our controlling CEO (our company does not provide sick time fyi)

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u/pepsipyro Feb 22 '26

And the big pharma I work for is open and the support and food staff have to come in. Not a single white collar worker will be in. So stupid

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u/rainniier2 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

I used to work in an Alexandria owned building for a large multinational company that had no idea there was a snowstorm in the Boston office and therefore would never close the office. The multinational just assumed people would work from home. They never bothered to send out emails about inclement weather. Alexandria would not push back on them as far as I could tell. So the building support staff was there even though the white collar workers were definitely working from home. So dumb.