Who Decides When Employees Are Fit Enough to Travel Again — And How?
For travel managers worldwide, the first phase of the crisis was about bringing staff back home safely. Now it's time to see who's ready to go back out.
Checking the fitness of employees used to be reserved for high-risk sectors, such as mining where staff would spend long periods away at remote work camps. But today, nearly every destination can be classified as a hotspot.
"There will be many schools of thought on how to approach this, as there were when we all adapted and enhanced processes after the Eyjafjallajokull ash cloud," said Jo McQuade, former travel manager at energy company npower.
