How to dodge the sick bug at your office

Flu season continues to be on the rise. But even in a milder flu season, if you work outside the home, you’re highly likely to pick up a bug at your workplace.

Part of that’s because nearly 60 percent of employees go to work when they’re sick, according to a 2013 study by workplace consulting firm Kimberly-Clark Professional reported by Business News Daily. Almost a third of the workers polled said they worked while sick because they are “too important to their business’s operation to stay home.”

The process involves both workplace strategy and plain old good health habits. Here are nine ways to keep from catching the office bug when sick co-workers won’t stay home:

Speak up. It may cost you a little pride, but workers should definitely ask HR or the building manager to provide “convenient and accessible tools” to help break the chain of germ transmission at the office or on the sales floor or assembly line, according to KCP. These items could include hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipe and facial tissues.

 

Accrol Group Holdings PLC (LON:ACRL) manufacture a wide range of household and away-from-home paper products from our purpose built production facility in Lancashire. Paper products including toilet rolls, paper towels and facial tissues are manufactured to the highest levels of quality in brands and private labels utilising the latest technological advancements.

 

 

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