Return to work for City staff

​​​​​1. Stay home if you're sick

If you've had any of the following in the last 24 hours, you should stay home:

• fever after above 100.4
• chills
• sweats
• cough
• shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• sore throat
• persistent sneezing or runny nose
• fatigue or body aches
• headache
• loss of smell or taste
• nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea

If you have questions, call the Nurse Triage Line at 855-850-2249.

You are no longer required to submit your health screening information.

Isolate yourself at home.
Get tested at one of several locations in San Francisco.

2. If you’ve had COVID-19 

You must isolate yourself at home if you tested positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms.

To return to work you must:

• Be free of fever over 100.4 F (38 C) for 24 hours (without medication)
• Have improving symptoms
• Have isolated yourself for 10 days from the date of your first symptoms

You can also return to work if your symptoms improve, you have no fever, and have a negative rapid antigen tests on or after the 5th day of your illness.

3. If you’ve had close contact with someone with COVID-19

You must wear a face mask for 10 days after a close contact.

If you are vaccinated with or without a booster you can continue to work after a close contact.

If you are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated you must quarantine for 5 days after a close contact.

If you are vaccinated and eligible for a booster but have not yet received you must test on day 3 to 5 after a close contact. If negative you may continue to work.

If you are unable to test you must leave work and complete a 10 day quarantine.

Close contacts include anyone who:

• Lives with you or stayed overnight with you
• You were physically intimate with, including only kissing or sex
• Takes care of you 
• You take care of
• Stayed within 6 feet of you for 15 minutes or more over the course of a day
• Had direct contact with your body fluids, including coughs or sneezes

Direct contact with bodily fluids could be if someone coughed or sneezed on you while you were not wearing a face mask, gown, and gloves. It could also be from sharing utensils with someone.

A close contact does not include employees who are required to work with someone who may have COVID-19, if they are wearing the appropriate PPE at work.

All employees who have had a close contact must continue to watch for COVID symptoms.

When you do return to work, you must wear a face masks in high risk settings. In all other settings we encourage you to wear a face mask, but face masks are not required (from March 18, 2022).

If you are off work for more than 5 days, you must submit a doctor’s note to your HR lead.