Web Worker Daily

Does this sound like your day?

• Stay at home
• Cross-train employees to handle critical functions
• Establish policies for alternate and flexible worksites
• Deliver work by e-mail or Internet
• Encourage flexible work hours
• Establish policies for employees with children to work from home
• Limit face-to-face meetings
• Minimize close contact between and among employees and customers
• Promote teleworking

Nope, that’s not from a how-to brochure for web workers. It’s a selection of the advice the Centers for Disease Control offers to employers in the recently-released Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States. Much more detail available at PandemicFlu.gov if you need something new to worry about today.