Flu

Fall kicks off football-filled weekends, cooler temperatures, colorful leaves … and a few unwelcome accompaniments.

Colds, flu, and seasonal allergies will probably start making the rounds at your office in the near future, if they haven’t already. For your employees, that means feeling physically ill and mentally drained; for you, it means taking up the slack … Continue Reading »

Keeping your office free of germs starts with not letting them in in the first place.

That means ensuring that sick workers (and their cold and flu bugs) stay at home where they belong, which may require you to tighten up on your sick leave policy.

Too many people think that “soldiering through” is preferable to spending … Continue Reading »

If you’ve walked into your office recently and wondered if you’d come in on a Saturday by mistake, it’s safe to assume that this season’s cold and flu germs have invaded.

You’re not alone (well, aside from the empty office, that is). Gallup reports that self-reported cases of colds and flu are on the rise, already … Continue Reading »

When colds and flu start making their yearly rounds, productivity can become even more of a concern than usual.

Employees who call in sick are helping prevent the spread of illness, but leaving fewer to get the work done.

Sick workers who tough it out and come into the office, on the other hand, risk infecting … Continue Reading »

Do you ever wonder if your employees are allergic to work?

Odds are their jobs aren’t what’s causing their misery. All those sneezy, itchy, watery-eyed cubicle dwellers could simply be suffering from garden-variety fall allergies.

It’s more common than you might imagine. New Gallup data reports that as many as one in 10 Americans are sick with … Continue Reading »

Score one more for getting active!

Encouraging physical fitness on your staff is key to any good wellness program, but new research points to a hidden bonus that has nothing to do with the oft-touted benefits of weight loss and heart health.

As temperatures drop and the common cold targets workplaces everywhere, fitness plays an important role … Continue Reading »

Are your employees ready for battle?

Cold and flu season is here, and with it comes the need to arm your staff with preventive measures as well as methods of keeping illness from spreading if prevention isn’t 100% effective.

In the average office, germs can spread from person to person like wildfire. Before you know it, you … Continue Reading »

There’s a surprising new reason to make sure your employees get their flu shots, and it has nothing to do with preventing an office-wide epidemic.

The vaccine could reduce your risk of suffering a heart attack, according to a new study. The research found that adults ages 40 and older who got their flu shot were … Continue Reading »

Flu season is probably not the first thing on your employees’ minds these days.

After all, it’s only the middle of August, and the flu generally doesn’t peak until November.

But with kids going back to school and summer marching steadily toward fall (hard to believe when it’s 100 degrees in the shade where you live), the … Continue Reading »

In the snug and well-populated confines of the average office environment, a contagious illness can spread like wildfire.

It starts when one person decides to tough it out and drags his cold germs into work with him.

Before you know it, half your staff is home in bed and the other half has joined in the office’s … Continue Reading »