As the earliest flu outbreak in years continues to claim victims, businesses are taking a hit, too. They’re faced with an unsolvable problem: If they tell too many sick employees to stay home, the work doesn’t get done. But when people sick with flu and other bugs show up, they’re spreading illness through the workplace.
It’s a dilemma the staff at Zeno Radio, a media technology company in Midtown Manhattan, has seen unfold this winter.
Around here, Chaim Gross is known as “Patient Zero.” Gross was the first one in his office to get sick about three months ago. But he kept coming to work.
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