When the virus continued to spread even after vaccines became widely accessible, company leaders questioned whether it made sense to keep offices open or partially open and, if so, under what conditions. Because the virus hasn’t receded as hoped, nearly two years later many businesses are still determining what’s best for their companies and employees. As they do so, they are juggling many concerns.
Determine New Rules
To know what processes you need to phone number list develop to safely welcome workers back into the office, first determine what rules you want them to follow. Here are some ideas to start with:
- Vaccine mandate. This decision is probably the biggest one you’ll have to make. A mandate may be offensive to some employees, while a lack of one may be unacceptable to others. The matter is complex and goes beyond the scope of this post, but many resources are available to help you determine what’s best for your organization.
- COVID screenings. Whether or not you implement a vaccine mandate, you may want to require employees — as well as others who enter your premises — to regularly get tested for the virus.
- Health checks. Another way to ensure team members aren’t coming to work sick is to create a way for them to report their symptoms and other important information (such as exposure to others who may have had the virus).
The decisions you make at this stage will help you determine what technology or processes you need to pursue. We explore those solutions in the following sections.
Tracking Health
Companies that implement a vaccine how to use google trends for advanced marketing insights mandate will need to have a way to check that employees have complied. Some are using the honor system, asking workers to provide accurate information about their vaccine status. Others are manually checking CDC vaccination cards. Still others are using apps that can check and, in some cases, verify CDC information. Some of these apps can also be used to track COVID test results and self-reported or employer-gathered health status information.
Before implementing such apps, familiarize yourself with potential employee concerns, such as those expressed in the following news report:
Tracking Personnel
As with health tracking processes, there trust review are many ways to track personnel. For a small office, an Excel spreadsheet may work to record who will be in which office at what time. Larger organizations may need a more sophisticated system. Computerworld explains, “Most of these platforms allow companies to upload an office floor plan that shows individual workspaces…in addition to meeting rooms and common areas…. Employees use web or mobile apps to search available workspaces for a given day and reserve a desk in advance.”
Using sensors, other platforms are available to track human movement and how many people are in a given space at one time, then disallow others from entering that area until someone has left.