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Crisis Management Update: Managing your business through change and disruption
This week's guide to Crisis Management
 
This week's email features a look at Liability issues lurk in remote work environment; Mental health, wellness efforts need to start at the top in workplace; Tips for dealing with pandemic-induced stress levels, mental health; Can your boss force you to get a COVID-19 vaccine?; 2020 hindsight and a look at that lies ahead.
 
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Liability issues lurk in remote work environment
While lawyers who specialize in employer responsibilities and workers’ compensation cases can’t necessarily provide concrete answers, there could be liability concerns when it comes to how home office arrangements contribute to work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
 
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Mental health, wellness efforts need to start at the top in workplace
Heather Newton, executive director of NAMI Rochester, New York, says it may be time to take a back-to-basics moment. She advises people to get enough rest and go easy on themselves .
 
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Tips for dealing with pandemic-induced stress levels, mental health
A Centers for Disease Control study found reports of anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide greatly increased from 2019. Thirty-one percent of the respondents said they had experienced symptoms of anxiety, triple the rate in 2019. Likewise, 31 percent reported suffering depression, four times the rate in 2019.
 
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Can your boss force you to get a COVID-19 vaccine?
Some companies concerned about liability issues, health and safety may need to decide whether to force their employees to get vaccinated if they want to continue working or return to the office, experts say.
 
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2020 hindsight and a look at what lies ahead
So, what’s on deck for this year? We can expect that the Federal Reserve will continue to provide support to the market. Also, both political parties will want to keep the economy humming, so we can expect continued fiscal and monetary stimulus from the government .
 
 

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