About 40 current and former employees of the outdoor equipment store REI in Grand Rapids, Mich., regularly communicate using the messaging app GroupMe. “I was told not to tell anybody and that the store would let everybody know what was going on. Why didn’t store managers alert employees? “I was told that management would let people know what was going on and to not post or say anything on social media,” the employee wrote. The Grand Rapids store was closed on July 3 to investigate “potential” Covid-19 exposure, but according to voice mail messages that managers left for the staff, they said no one had been exposed to the virus and the store reopened the next day.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2020 19:41 UTC