The Architecture Lobby advocates for “employers to prioritize the health and financial security of architectural workers” amid COVID-19 crisis

As the economic and social fall out from the growing novel coronavirus pandemic continues to take shape, The Architecture Lobby (TAL) has published a letter calling on employers to protect the health and welfare of their workers. 

The statement, published on the TAL website, implores architecture firms to “prioritize the health and financial security” of their employees during the COVID-19 crisis, while also pushing them to offer paid sick leave, “full healthcare coverage,” and employment flexibility in this time of social distaning and remote work. In addition, the letter argues that firms will need to adopt “new models of interaction and practice” to survive this crisis while warning that the impacts of the pandemic are “predicted to be far worse than the Great Recession of 2008.”