疫情准备和劳动力:雇主对长期COVID的经验
Kung Chen1, Michelle L Rogers2, Melissa A Clark3
1Research Assistant for the Dean's Special Projects Team at the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island.
Rhode Island medical journal (2013)
|November 28, 2023
概括
许多工作场所经历了长期COVID (后SARS-CoV-2综合征) 影响,包括员工离开和工作负载变化. 住宿通常提高了生产力,突出了职业环境中对流行病准备的需要.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 传染病流行病学 传染病流行病学
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
背景情况:
- 病毒感染,包括SARS-CoV-2,可以导致持续的症状和功能限制,形成后病毒综合征.
- 这些后病毒综合征对工作场所动态和操作的具体影响仍然在很大程度上不确定.
研究的目的:
- 调查长期COVID (SARS-CoV-2病毒后综合征) 在罗德岛工作场所的流行率和影响.
- 评估雇主意识和长期COVID对员工就业状况,工作量和住宿需求的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用D&B Hoovers数据库进行了一项横截面研究,以确定罗德岛的符合条件的工作场所.
- 对工作场所领导者进行了调查,以收集有关长期COVID影响,员工报告和住宿结果的数据.
- 数据收集发生在2022年9月至10月期间,重点关注至少有两名员工和有效的联系电子邮件的工作场所.
主要成果:
- 在6149个符合条件的工作场所中,有484个 (8%) 参与,这表明领导者对长期COVID的认识有限.
- 28%的参与工作场所报告员工经历了长期COVID.
- 在受影响的工作场所中,14%的员工终止了就业,45%的员工减少了工作量,22%的员工处理了住宿要求;80%的员工报告说住宿提高了生产力.
结论:
- 长期COVID显著影响工作场所,需要在流行病准备策略中考虑.
- 工作场所的环境必须纳入对后病毒综合征的长期后果的规划.
- 该研究强调了雇主意识和适应性策略对于管理长期COVID的职业影响的重要性.
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