If it’s a staggered reentry. Just do company name, state and date.
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What’s your company name and when are sales reps back in the field?
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I don’t want to post my companies name sorry, but most companies will take a regional approach and guess what it doesn’t matter when your company tells you to go back into the field what matters most at this point is when will your offices/hospitals let you back in. If you are selling in hospitals you aren’t getting into one for the foreseeable future. If you are in the hardest hit areas and not going into hospitals hope they let you back in before august/September.
San Diego based pharma company. Staggered entry beginning next Monday.
Virtual calls and meetings at least through June is what company is projecting. Previous poster and common sense that we will not be back into most offices and clinics for many months.
Hospitals are currently closed to visitors. Many clinics doing virtual appointments. Patients will come back to offices for live visits first. Eventually, visitors will be allowed back inot hospitals to visit loved ones who are in the hospital.
The LAST ones to get let back into the hospitals and clinics will be the sales reps. Social distancing will be in place for a long time. There simply will not be enough space in clinics and hospitals to have patients and visitors spread apart at least 6 feet, and then add in sales reps dropping in unannounced.
Obviously, there will be exceptions to this scenario. I expect 90% of clinics and hospitals to be closed off to live visits until better testing and vaccinations are in place. I predict at least through end of year we will be virtual selling; get used to this new way of life!
Hospitals are currently closed to visitors. Many clinics doing virtual appointments. Patients will come back to offices for live visits first. Eventually, visitors will be allowed back inot hospitals to visit loved ones who are in the hospital.
The LAST ones to get let back into the hospitals and clinics will be the sales reps. Social distancing will be in place for a long time. There simply will not be enough space in clinics and hospitals to have patients and visitors spread apart at least 6 feet, and then add in sales reps dropping in unannounced.
Obviously, there will be exceptions to this scenario. I expect 90% of clinics and hospitals to be closed off to live visits until better testing and vaccinations are in place. I predict at least through end of year we will be virtual selling; get used to this new way of life!
States need to decide when we go back in the field, not pharma companies. Because we travel from office to office and many of us travel through multiple counties on a daily basis we need to be tested frequently - how frequently? How will this be done? In over 20 years working in pharma I have not witnessed many companies that are actually patient focused - and none that I've worked for have realized that their reps are patients. Without oversight administered by officials OUTSIDE the pharma industry there's pretty good odds we will be back to square one, thrown back into the fire in the form of a nationwide swarm of traveling of typhoid marys.
We're being told minimally through Labor Day (September 7th) ... Insane 
Then a transition back to the new normal which could take weeks to months.
Then a transition back to the new normal which could take weeks to months.I work in the Southeast. I have been in the field throughout the whole ordeal. I am still going out there are making a difference for the doctors and patients!
Many companies are being extra careful, keeping reps out of the field. Some are not. Huge potential for spreading and liability.
New product lunch— company not being patient with sales. “Pushing people out there, but then saying, well if you don’t feel safe, don’t go out”. Oh, and btw, we are watching your call counts, and prescriptions generated. REALLY.
Evil: profoundly immoral and wicked. A health "care" (dis)organization claiming the primary mission is to improve health while, in fact, profoundly doing the opposite. For monetary profit.