Managing Quarantine for staff taking holidays abroad

Coronavirus has meant that many leaders in business have had to face their workplace culture issues, adapt and change. 

Managing change is always challenging and is normally undertaken with a great deal of care and contingency planning. Then 2020 began and constant change and evolution has become the new normal . 

For some companies, they would have found their workplace culture enabled change to happen, trust in the management decisions and staff enabled to succeed within the most difficult time the company is likely to have experienced. 

However, for some, they would have been faced with resistance and further challenge from the people the managers needed to facilitate the change that was essential to business survival. 

You need to create an open culture around your employees taken holidays abroad. 

This is an essential element to your employees feeling comfortable to share their holiday plans without fear of reprisal or financial sanctions. 

Create an openness that enables dialogue and allows managers to gather the most accurate information. 

Leaders can then combine this with up to date government guidelines and provide support to their employees at this time of high anxiety, taking best care of their mental health and wellbeing along with financial solutions. 

This situation pulls into sharp focus the full weight of responsibility held by employers for the duty of care to their staff. 

By enabling this open flow of information and support, you are protecting your staff from a business lockdown, damage to the company’s reputation, loss of earnings and potential job losses. Most importantly of all, you are doing everything you can to protect them from a fatal disease; sharing will save lives. 

Isolation after holiday must be ‘ok’.