Confronting germs — and uncertainty

As scores of office workers around the country abandon their workstations and sequester themselves to home offices, an army of workers do not have that same option, The New York Times writes. Cleaning and security staff — many paid low wages and employed by contracting companies — continue to consistently show up and confront “the invisible germs that threaten public health.” Yet although they provide an increasingly vital service in the time of a pandemic, many fear they are placing their own health in peril and the protections offered to office workers are not being reciprocated.