How to minimise the impact of Coronavirus in your workplace?

The coronavirus epidemic has put the world under great fears and pressure. Should you have really isolated yourself from the entire world? Maybe during peak times. We, as citizens of India, should be happy with the proactive and preventive measures taken by our honorable prime minister. While the country’s lockdown stands on till March 31st. We may have to go to the workplace again. All the preventive effort taken by our honorable prime minister may control the spread of the diseases in the country but doesn’t nullify the epidemic entirely. You may have to take some effective measures to minimize the impact of Coronavirus in your workplace.

7 Measures to minimize the impact of Coronavirus in your workplace

• Encourage regular hand washing
• Perform environmental cleaning
• Social Distancing
• Encourage sick employees to stay home
• Screen visitors to the workplace
• Consider having non-essential employees work remotely
• Quarantine potentially exposed employees even if they exhibit no symptoms

Encourage regular hand washing

When deadly diseases for which a vaccine is yet to be found putting the entire world at scare, we could do nothing but take preventive measures to minimize the impact. Every employer should focus on the measures that should be taken to reduce the impact of Coronavirus at the workplace. When you are working in a shared office location, you should educate employees about washing their hands regularly to protect themselves and also prevent spread and also avoid touching face, nose and eyes with hands as far as possible.

Perform environmental cleaning

Shared working is not a single person’s business location. Employers of the Coworking space in Gurgaon should team up and are advised to go for environmental cleaning quite often. All touched spots at the workplace should be cleaned and disinfected regularly. Few of these include workstations, doorknobs and countertops. If possible supply your employees ‘ disposable wipes and ask them to wipe commonly used surfaces on each use.

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Social Distancing

The corporate world today has brought the workforce closer to each other. Educate employees that social distancing is an effective measure to curb the spread. Avoid conducting a big meeting for a while be it discussing business performance or assigning targets to the employees. Take the help of the intranet, video calling and teleconferencing for a while to hold a business meeting if they go inevitable. Ask your employees to stay away from crowding or public gathering or any parties for a while till the situation comes under control.

Encourage sick employees to stay home

If any of the employees is falling sick or suffering from acute respiratory illness, ask them to stay home to ensure the rest of the office or staff is less impacted. Advice them to stay away from the office or work from home until the symptoms are relieved or reduced. Make the necessary changes in your sick leave policies so that they turn employee-friendly.

Screen visitors to the workplace

It is the responsibility of the employers to protect visitors at the workplace. Visitors at the workplace should be screened for exposure to the virus before they enter office premises. If any such symptoms exhibited during the screening process should be e restricted from using the workplace or entering the premises

Consider having non-essential employees work remotely

Be it a Coworking space in Gurgaon or a corporate office; it is not possible for the companies to allow employees to work from home for a long time. At times, it becomes inevitable for the staff to visit the office in spite of an epidemic. However, employers can take measures to run the business operations with a minimal workforce from the office and allow a major share of the team to work from home to run a business effectively. One should also take security concerns and equipment availability while filtering the employees to segregate teams to work from home.

Quarantine potentially exposed employees even if they exhibit no symptoms

The deadly Coronavirus is asymptomatic in its early stages. All employers should revise policies about their foreign trips or travels. Restrain your employees from making foreign visits to close the deals. If your employees have already made visits to foreign countries as a part of your business deals, there are chances that they are exposed to the virus without knowing. The virus which is asymptotic in the early stages is very quick at spreading even at this stage. If you are working in a shared space, it becomes even more important as you may spread the diseases to the staff of the companies that are sharing the workspace with you.

All the employees who return from foreign nations should be quarantined for 14 days incubation period before they resume work to minimize the chances of spread. This is a very vital step to stop the spread even if they don’t exhibit any symptoms of the diseases.

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