17 September

Lots of talk recently about boosting productivity in Australia. Here’s a major productivity-killer nobody talks about. Sickness in the workplace. Already before Covid colds and flu cost businesses $7 billion/year. Immensely more now, with Covid. All quite easily fixed, not rocket science. The challenge is reversing the tidal wave of dumb ‘it’s healthy to get infected’, ‘let’s live with infections’ zombies.