The American workplace this week is starting to resemble a cross between a hypochondriac convention and those first few days of elementary school, when students are taught to wash their hands, cough into their elbows and throw away used tissue.
As the number of confirmed cases of swine flu grows and concerns mount, corporate America is grappling with how best to keep healthy employees well and at work in slimmed-down workplaces, and how to keep the sick ones home.
Corporate-wide e-mails containing tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are prevalent. Managers are making sure bathrooms are well-stocked with paper towels. Anti-bacterial hand sanitizers are being strategically placed where employees come in contact with the public.
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