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I'm a software engineer with 20 years experience, 8 years at my current employer. I am happy with my position and employer. That is until recently. I was notified I would have to start taking a week long 24/7 on-call rotation with 5 other team members. So, I am on-call 1 week out of 6 weeks. The alerts are generated from DataDog/New Relic monitors. I have never handled on-call after hours and I'm not excited to start at this point in my career with many family obligations and a desire for clear work/life boundaries. I was offered no additional compensation for the added responsibilities. I find being on-call invasive and disruptive, not only for me but also my family. When on-call, I sleep in a separate room from my wife so that her sleep is not disrupted. I also have a hard time falling asleep knowing that an alert could go off at any time.

I'm curious to hear how common this is in the industry. Are you on-call? Was it part of your initial hire responsibilities or added later? Did you receive any compensation for your duties? Am I going to be in the same situation if I change jobs/companies?

When searching for a business on Google, the results will usually include how busy the location is historically and currently. It will also include the average amount of time a person spends at the location. I assume this data is collected from mobile devices somehow.

My question is, couldn't Google take the number of unique visitors and the average amount of time each spends at a location (maybe even the local infection rate) and calculate a risk score that you could view before visiting the location?

I can see why Google would not want to label customers as high risk, but I think this information would be helpful for the public.