Rejected petition Allow people to work from home to mitigate the potential spread of COVID-19

Government/Parliament should recommend that employees should have the option to work remotely in order to mitigate the potential spread of COVID-19.

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The majority of the people use public transport to reach their place of work. Social distancing is encouraged but impossible to act upon on packed trains or in crowded offices.
Cases are rising rapidly and we should prevent the spread of the virus before it is too late.
UK based companies should follow the example of large corporate such as Amazon, Facebook or Microsoft and allow employees to work from home and travel to their place of work only when strictly necessary.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petitions calling for these actions:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300965
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301439

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

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Date submitted 11 March 2020
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