As coronavirus testing becomes more widely available, more US-based companies will learn that an employee has contracted COVID-19. The question for management then becomes: What to do, who to notify and how much to say without violating the privacy of an infected employee? One of the first steps employers should take is to notify their local public health agency regarding next steps.

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, is a story that any human resources manager will be familiar with from personal experience at some point in their career; that bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes