Drugs and facemasks ‘worthless against swine flu’

Swine flu is likely to strike members of workplace teams all at the same time, so employers should ensure staff have the transferable skills to cover for each other, according to health experts.

Lucy Wright, a consultant occupational physician for Atos Healthcare, said that given the speed at which the virus can spread, companies should prepare for entire departments to go down with the illness.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School