A number of the nation’s well-respected epidemiologists say working from home should be top of the list when it comes to attempts to take the edge off worrying outbreaks.
A pandemic adviser to the federal government says people should work from home if they can and warned employers not to expect their COVID-infected staff to continue working while ill.
“Industry is there to make a profit and if your workforce is all sick, it’s not going well,” McVernon said. Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has requested “employers consider working-from-home arrangements that are most appropriate for their workplace and employees based on individual requirements”.from acting Victorian Chief Health Officer Ben Cowie, recommending “during the coming period of increased transmission and resulting health system pressure in July and August, people work from home where practical to do so”.
Epidemiologist Professor James Trauer said rather than mandating masks in young school children, the first thing he would do if there was a need to reduce COVID-19 spread would be to get people who can work from home to do so.“I think that’s going to be considerably more effective than asking eight-year-olds to put on face masks.”
The number of Australians in hospital with COVID-19 is close to the highest it’s been since the beginning of the pandemic and for many months hospital staff have been reporting they are beingMcVernon, who has been working more from home recently, said she believed it was fortunate that the previous major Omicron wave, in January, occurred over the holiday period, because even though people were socialising, they were doing it with the same group of people, often over shorter periods.
Early this month, the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, of which all the nation’s chief health officers are members, called on employers to “consider the feasibility of some employees working from home”.
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