said she died on a Friday and was discovered on Tuesday, so it's possible nobody cleaned on the days in between. The company itself called the area the woman worked in a "very underpopulated area" of the building, so between that and people working remotely, I guess I can understand no co-workers noticing her on Friday or Monday (interesting that the co-workers thought the "foul smell", aka the body decomposing, was faulty plumbing, which wasn't uncommon). But in this day and age with technology keeping track of everyone's coming and going, how could nobody have been alerted to her not clocking out on Friday? Another comment below the article was from someone who said their company had a "lone worker" policy: if you worked in an area of the building where you were the sole employee, you were required to check in once an hour or else security would be sent to check on you. Sounds like this woman could've used that.
As for not having family to notice the woman had passed, well, that's sad but not terribly uncommon. Many years ago at the bindery, I had a co-worker I loved dearly who lived alone. This predated everyone being on their phones 24/7--it really even predated everyone HAVING a mobile phone, and the mobile phones we had weren't smart--so his family wasn't checking up on him regularly. James died at home unexpectedly from a massive heart attack--he was only in his early 50s--and because it wasn't unusual for people to not bother calling in when they were sick, the day he missed at the bindery wasn't alarming. He was discovered three days later after missing two days at his evening job; during the NBA season, he worked as an elevator operator at Cavs' home games. If the Cavs hadn't been playing back to back home games, it could've taken even longer for the body to be discovered. James' death haunts me to this day, both because of the nature of it (dying at home, alone, not being discovered for days) but because he was such a wonderful guy :-(
