But working from home is not an option for everyone.

Johnny Clayton Taylor, the CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, is here with more on what workers and businesses conduce to protect themselves.

Johnny, we appreciate you being on, you know, you just heard the doctor.

They're talking about the challenge of protecting health care workers.

If you're someone who is generally forced to be exposed to the sick or the public, what do you d'oh, You stay home.

I mean answers really simple.

At the end of the day, people should not come toe work and run the risk of either taking diseases back to their families, of bringing the diseases from their homes into the workplace.

It's a really simple decision, but not everybody can do that.

What if you don't have the kind of job that you can do from home, or that you you can't really miss?

I mean, what if you're a doctor, you need to go in and treat your patients, for example?

Well, I mean, let's think about it.

You're a doctor, and you need to treat your patients.

The one thing you shouldn't be doing is bringing harm to your patients.

So I don't think that anyone has the should.

Should think about being unable to goto work these conversations.

If you are exhibiting symptoms of the Corona virus, then you must.

It is your responsibility to not subject other people and expose them to this thing disease.

All right, So you're saying for people who are sick, they should absolutely not goto work.

Totally understood.

What about for people who aren't sick and just want to take precautions?

They want to protect themselves, But they can't just stay home and put themselves and, you know, a self preservation of quarantine.

So just be well, right.

So obviously, as an organization, Sherm, we represent 300,000 HR people.

So our job is to make sure that America's companies and indeed globally companies, have employees showing up where they can do so safely and responsibly.

So what we say is practice good hygiene.

Nothing replaces that, and frankly, we should be doing that anyway.

Avoid some of the normal gestures where we shake hands of people.

A fist bump, a nod, you know, just recognizing people in different ways avoided embracing people in a beer.

Safeway, right?

Embracing people.

The notion is, be smart.

We are.

We're dealing with an exceptional circumstance, Chueh, Shin and so that requires that you modify your behavior to take into consideration what we're facing and what we don't know.

And from a business perspective, what responsibility do employers have, for example, hourly employees who don't get compensated if they don't come in?

Are there sort of any efforts to try to motivate people to to stay home?

It was a weird motive.

We're more than motivating.

We're strongly encouraging employers to be smart here.

It is simply not in the best interest of the employer to bring people into the workplace who pose risk.

The idea.

You know, we had someone called me the other day and they were talking about, you know, operated business, and I made 10 bucks an hour, and my employer has essentially said if you don't come to work, you're not paid.

And I said, Well, that's dumb.

At the end of the day, there's no other way to explain it.

If, for example, you're a restaurant and you encourage someone to come to work so that you're not paying someone $10 an hour to be at home sick.

Think about the consequences of that.

So we're encouraging employers.

That, too, if an employee is in fact sick or ever shows any symptoms that feel like, as the doctor said earlier, the's a look and feel like the flu Early on.

If you have that going on, ask, encourage demand that that employees stay home.

All right.

Johnny Clayton from the Society for Human Resource Management.

We appreciate it, Johnny.

Thanks.

Thank you.

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