Some companies taking precautions amid Singapore’s COVID-19 wave, rise in employees on sick leave

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One company is encouraging employees to work from home until the end of April after many of its staff members fell ill over the past month.

, some companies have been taking additional precautions such as encouraging employees to work from home.

“We hope that with the company and the employees all doing our part, we can have a team that is healthy and energised to do our best at work regardless of the rising number of cases that we are seeing today,” said the company’s founder and managing director Yvonne Li.over the past month, with daily infections rising from about 1,400 in March to roughly 4,000 cases a day the week before.

“Our workforce is still very lean so we are quite cautious because we can’t afford for half the team to be down." “We usually take cues from the government on what measures to implement, restrictions to impose or things we need to do,” said Mr Soh. While waves of infections are expected as immunity rises and falls in the population, infectious diseases experts said it is important for companies to continue practising good public health.

 

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At least some companies are doing something. Whatever the numbers, they are no longer reflecting the “actual” cases coz we no longer need to report, moreover, there will be some that dont even bother to test and just go out maskless.

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