Epic Systems

Epic allowed essentially all employees to work from home for almost 5 months, and for many up to an additional 2 more. During this outage, they provided significant amounts of food, and culinary manpower to produce the food, to shelters and people throughout the community.

Now they're starting to slowly bring people back to campus. It seems a little bit early (Dane County is still classified as High COVID-19 activity, but it's improving). However, Epic has a very smart team covering this and is taking exceptional measures to allow employees to come back and work on the beautiful campus.

Every employee has their own office (or shares with 1 person they've selected). High-touch surfaces are cleaned throughout the entire day. HVAC air filtration and circulation is top-notch. The food areas have hot food pre-packaged and are quite streamlined to allow quick access without crowding (employees of course can bring their own food if they want to avoid this).

Most other tech companies have blended office spaces, not individual offices for every employee. If Epic didn't have personal offices, then now wouldn't be the time to return. But they do, and I'm not concerned.

Perhaps a bit aggressive in bringing employees back. Dane County cases are trending downwards, but only recently. Waiting another month would seem more appropriate to me.

Has some employees that stir up hostility whenever their own opinion doesn't match the decisions of company leadership.