Keeping Illness Out of the Workplace
A Purdue professor offers suggestions to keep flu out of workplace.
A report published in the Jan. 16th edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) estimates that this season’s flu vaccine reduced a person’s risk of going to the doctor because of flu by 23 percent for all ages, making it one of the least effective flu vaccines in recent years.
So, with flu season underway, Purdue University Professor Ellen Kossek says employers need to be proactive in dealing with ill workers.
