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To be fair CDC recommends 7 days after onset of symptoms.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidance-risk-assesment-hcp.html#:~:text=At%20least%207%20days%20have,of%20fever%2Dreducing%20medications%2C%20and
It does seem a bit rushed to me
That's for healthcare workers, for the general public it's only 5 days, as long as you subjectively feel you're improving and don't have a fever. It's stupidly fast, especially since around 20% of people are still PCR+ after 5 days.
While there are good reasons healthcare workers should be more cautious, they're certainly not the only ones who should be, so that discrepancy between what is recommended to the general public (and by extension becomes company policy) and what they recommend to healthcare workers seems pretty bad.