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Epic Systems is a large private healthcare software corporation that is ignoring the advice of public health authorities and initiating a negligent return of 10,000 employees to a single campus. Realistically, this return to work plan will endanger the health of employees, the citizens of Madison that they interact with, and the larger Wisconsin community. The company is also planning to fly out over 250 employees to support customers going live on the company's software through November. Those employees would thereafter be required to return to campus, increasing risk of community transmission. 

The company's CEO, Judith Faulkner, has a net worth of $5.5 billion. She has argued that returning to campus will: 1) improve company culture, 2) increase collaboration, and 3) create a distraction-free environment. These arguments are patently untrue. Videoconferencing tools, virtual private networks (VPNs), and communication channels such as Microsoft Teams have made remote work more productive than it has been at any point in history.

Epic employees have not experienced a dip in productivity during their remote work period, as evidenced by their ability to support field hospitals (such as the Javitz Center in New York), lightning-fast software implementations to support hospital surge projects, and issuing new development to support health systems amidst a pandemic. The remote period has proven that Epic employees can work hard, remain productive, and support the healthcare industry from the safety of their homes without risking the health of our community. Faulkner herself lauded the company for their response to the pandemic during internal staff meetings. 

Research has recently been published suggesting long-term health impacts of COVID-19, including heart, neurological, and pulmonary issues. We still do not know the long-term impacts of COVID-19, and this return to work plan is unnecessarily putting employees in harm's way. 

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We are concerned Epic employees worried about unnecessarily spreading COVID-19 amidst a global pandemic. Please support our cause by taking the below email template and emailing it to the provided emails. 

Emails: judy@epic.com; sumit@epic.com; brehm@epic.com; sverre@epic.com; lars-oluf@epic.com; carl@epic.com; covid-19@epic.com

Dear Judy, Sumit, Brett, Sverre, Lars, Carl, and other relevant parties,

It has been recently brought to my attention that Epic is irresponsibly orchestrating a 10,000 employee return to a campus in Verona, Wisconsin. I strongly urge you to reconsider this decision in light of public health recommendations. Below, you will find a list of demands to ensure the safety of the Madison and Epic community. 

1: Allow employees to work from home until the end of 2020, at a minimum. Allow immunocompromised employees to work from home indefinitely until the pandemic has significantly subsided. 

2: Commit to a data and scientific-based approach for monitoring COVID-19 rates in Dane County and Wisconsin. If agreed upon thresholds are exceeded, work from home should always be permitted. 

3: Create a dashboard accessible to all Epic employees allowing anyone within the company to easily pinpoint how many colleagues have tested positive for the virus. Make it easier for employees to report that they have tested positive or are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. 

4: Offer PPE at-cost or free of charge to all employees willing to return to campus. 

5: Create a transparent online forum for COVID-19 questions to be asked and answered within the company. Questions are currently routed to an internal email list whose membership is unclear. This is unacceptable, and directly contradicts the company's claims to transparency. 

Thank you,

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