Preparing for the flu: Avoid 'SOS' - sick office syndrome

Last Friday DD Ganguly, our CEO, guest blogged on Silicon Valley Watcher - Avoiding 'SOS' - sick office syndrome.  As he mentions, the first precaution the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lists in their worker guidelines this flu season is:

Stay at home if you are sick. The HHS/CDC recommends that workers who have a fever or chills and a cough or sore throat to stay at home until 24 hours after their fever ends (defined as 100 degrees Fahrenheit [37.8 degrees Celsius]), without the use of medication.

 The OSHA employer guidance recommends planning for "social distancing" if disease severity increases, including:

• Consider using flexible work arrangements such as telecommuting and staggered work schedules to reduce the number of workers who need to come into work at the same time.
  
• Think about ways to eliminate face–to–face meetings between staff and with clients – use conference calls, webcasts, and other technologies to conduct meetings.

Hopefully we won't reach a level of increase severity, but it's better to be prepared if that happens.  Dimdim free web conferencing lets you meet with up to 20 people as often as you need, without costing you anything.  It includes a free telephone conference call number, the ability to share your desktop, slides, whiteboard, and web pages. 

If you are new to the concept of web conferencing, watch this video. Then see our Getting Started pages to learn more.

 

What steps are you taking to protect yourself and your company?  Having suffered through the flu myself recently, I've been spending time helping customers do everything they can to be ready.  I'd love your thoughts too.

 

-k
Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing
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