(From TIME.com) Small businesses already hit hard by the recession may soon undergo another
pummeling, this time by the 2009 H1N1 virus, the frightening new subtype of
a strain that's been around for decades.
"Right now the bulk of smaller businesses haven't prepared," says Howard A.
Mavity, a labor lawyer who heads up the workplace safety and catastrophe
management practice group at Fisher & Phillips, in Atlanta.
Overall, however, interest in how best to address a viral onslaught is
intense, says Mavity, noting that inquiries from businesses of all sizes about
his firm's free webinars on workplace-related H1N1 topics have increased
"tenfold" since the summer. (See which businesses are bucking the recession.)
Why then have so few small to midsize companies executed a blueprint for
action?
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