The coronavirus pandemic has created a lasting impact on how businesses run. With the goal to keep everyone safe and healthy, the status quo is shifting. Employers from every state must update their protocols, create new cleanliness practices, and communicate openly and effectively to support their employees.
In January 2020, roughly 40% of Americans did not wash their hands after using the bathroom. If there's one thing we can learn from the first half of this year, it's that sanitation matters.
"It’s nice having people call me a hero, but what they are doing matters more than what they are saying," says one RN of her experience leading up to Nurses Week 2020.
Over the course of the pandemic, we've seen failed government responses, raided supermarket aisles, and tragedy profiteering. Calamities, like pandemics and economic recessions, act as agents of change. But which of these changes are here to stay? What can we expect to see written in history books? What parts of our zeitgeist will have their origins firmly entrenched in Covid-19?