Everyday an employee is out on sick leave is a day of lost productivity for the company. And this issue
\ngets exacerbated by employees coming into the office sick and then spreading their germs around which
\nof course just compounds the absentee issue. So instead of one or two employees out sick you have 10
\n\u2013 20 depending on the size of your organization and this all adds up to a lot of lost productivity.<\/p>\n
Projects get put on hold \u2013 customer meetings get delayed and in general employee sick leave is one of
\nthe biggest performance hits on US business to the tune of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n
Sick leave is also a random occurrence \u2013 like vacations employees don\u2019t plan for sick leave. With a
\nsudden departure of a key employee their workload has to suddenly get distributed and as Murphy law
\nseemingly always dictates employees get sick at the most inopportune times. This might mean missed
\ncommitments or initiatives that have to be delayed.<\/p>\n
Costs of Sick Leave<\/strong> When COVID-19 hit, and more and more people started to become infected with the contagious disease, And this realization that protecting employees from human viruses is as important (and likely more so) Measures to start protecting their employees at the workplace include:<\/strong><\/p>\n When one thinks of firewalls you envision the digital method of keeping \u201cbad things\u201d away from This human virus \u201cperimeter\u201d technology drives the process for getting companies to a 100% response Many governments (local, state) have given businesses the green light to take employee temperatures By now we are all used to the \u201chygienic normal\u201d since many organizations such as the World Health Everyday an employee is out on sick leave is a day of lost productivity for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe costs of sick leave is not only in the work the employee misses but the stress other employees can
\nfeel because they need to take up extra work to make up for lost productivity. And this can hit all
\ndepartments from HR to Sales and Marketing. Hourly employees for example may have to work extra
\nschedules and this always has a downstream effect on personal life as well.<\/p>\nCoronavirus and the New Realization<\/h3>\n
\nmost workplaces had to shut down. If there is a positive side of this virus pandemic is that organizations
\nlike the CDC along with states and local jurisdictions started to strongly advise and even require
\ncompanies, as they start planning for a return of employees, that they implement systems to check for
\nthe health of the employee before that employee gets to the workplace.<\/p>\n
\nthen protecting computers from digital viruses which we have done for decades is starting to take hold
\nin corporate america. The impact of this growing realization to protect employees from human viruses
\nwill have a direct impact on reducing sick leave which in turn will likely have a significant return on
\nincreasing company performance.<\/p>\nPerimeter Protection Technology<\/h3>\n
\ncomputers \u2013 this is what is starting to happen to company virus protection for employees. Companies
\nare implementing technology through advanced screening questionnaires that employees submit
\nbefore arriving to their workplace.<\/p>\n
\nrate, captures contact tracing data, office ratios and general people operations. Perimeter technology
\ncan also help companies continuously set expectations for employees about health and safety at the
\nworkplace<\/p>\nTemperature Checks<\/h3>\n
\nbefore allowing them into the workplace. Temperature validation can also be handled by an electronic
\nquestionnaire by asking the \u201ctemperature question.\u201d<\/p>\nHygienic Workplaces<\/h3>\n
\nOrganization and CDC have passed guidelines to prevent the spread of infections in the workplace. This
\nincludes keeping common surfaces that are shared by employees clean and maintaining the general
\nhygiene of the workplace. PPE is the other big bucket of protective measures that we have all become
\naccustomed to.
\nPerimeter virus protection combined with general hygiene measures in the workplace are really starting
\nto change the game for Human Virus protection. The long term winners here are both employees and
\ncompanies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"