Statistics Canada is reporting that 1.5 Million people booked of sick in November 2009 as a result of H1N1 resulting in 29.5 Million hours of lost work time in Canada. Approximately 9% of workers booked off sick, averaging 20 hours of lost work time.
Employees with children living at home were off sick twice as much as employees without children. Employees with children under 12 had the highest absentism rates at 15%.
During the same time, 600,000 health care workers put in an additional 8.6 million work hours in November 2009 responding to the demands of H1N1.
More information is available at the Stats Canada website:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/100115/dq100115c-eng.htm
The economic and financial impacts of H1N1 are signifant. If the influenza had been more serious the strain on the economy would have massive impacts on every Canadian. Are companies truly prepared?
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