So You Think This COVID Thing Has Ended? Not So Fast! 5 Tips for Employers to Prepare for Cold, Flu, and COVID Season
For many businesses, the pandemic seems like a distant memory, but COVID-19 is not entirely behind us. Indeed, as the cold and flu season approaches, the CDC predicts that COVID-19 cases will increase across the country. Such surges have already started to impact workforces, making now a good time to review and update your COVID-19 policies to ensure business continuity when employees are out sick . Here’s a brief guide with five tips to effectively address respiratory illness in the workplace in today’s changing landscape. 1. Review the Latest CDC Guidance While the CDC’s strict guidelines have been lifted, current guidance notes that last year’s cold and flu season “provided ongoing evidence of the changing face of respiratory diseases,” and that “COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was.” The CDC further explains that COVID-19’s symptoms and health impacts “increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses,...