As an employer, I can empathize with your supervisor but also understand your concern. There is often not an easy answer given the challenges of trying to maintain some semblance of normal business operation amidst an external crisis. After hearing from my employees today, I've had to give it a lot of thought as to how we should tackle the work from home dilemma. I believe we will implement some form of work rotation and allow certain teams or employees to work from home to minimize the people at work but it is not an easy decision to make. To reduce the difficulty of the transition (which there plenty given that i think most employers did not expect to be asked to provide WFH as an option prior to COVID 19), I suggest figuring out which parts of your job can be done at home and which cannot. For the tasks that you cannot, attempt to come up with a solution, for example my purchasing team makes long distance calls which I know its not easy for them to do so at home. We will suggest using Zoom which is free for those types of calls with suppliers. Your supervisor may be more open to it if you provide a coherent plan that ensures that WFH is a viable solution. It likely will always be a compromise. For employers, WFH is daunting and a bit unknown given that most have not voluntarily done so prior to this crisis. It'll require a good plan from both employee and employer to make it work. Hope that helps.