The average employee takes 7.4 sick days/year in Canada, which costs businesses and organizations like yours over $16B in lost productivity. It’s more overtime, temporary workers and more bottlenecks, preventing everyone from getting work done. 

When one person is sick, your other employees and customers deserve to feel safe and protected… right? At the heart of keeping employees and customers safe is how much you are killing viruses in your workplace in order to reduce sick days. 

A wipe, is a wipe, is a wipe right?

Let’s take a look at the differences between clean surfaces and disinfected surfaces that prevent the spread of disease. 

• Cleaning wipes offer no protection, but may help surfaces appear more clean. 
• Sanitizing wipes give an unknown amount of protection. 
• Disinfecting wipes fully protect and keep you safe, up to governmental standards. 

Keep your team safe and healthy, and reduce sick days with Roxton disinfecting wipes. Shop now.

Tips on Managing Schedules During Flu Season

Managing a schedule, even a simple one is more difficult than you may think.

Why Is Managing a Schedule So Hard?

If you’ve ever tried scheduling a 10-person team, you know the truth: it’s like solving a puzzle where the pieces move every day. Even with just that small amount of people, availability, roles, hours, and rotations create thousands of scheduling combinations — and one tiny change can throw everything off.

Then someone wakes up sick.

One sick call isn’t just one shift — it’s:

• Overtime for someone else
• Tasks delayed or dropped
• Managers jumping in to cover
• Lower productivity and more stress

And if that illness spreads? Suddenly two or three people are out, and your perfectly balanced schedule is a memory.

Fewer healthy people = harder scheduling = less productivity.

While sick days will always happen, preventing the spread of illness keeps schedules stable and teams feeling supported. Cleaning helps surfaces look nice — disinfecting helps stop sick days before they start.

Smooth schedules start with healthy teams.

How to Manage Absences When It’s Hard to Reduce Sick Days

Here are some tips on how to manage cold and flu absences:

• Plan for flexibility: Build in float coverage, cross-train staff, and keep a backup rotation so one absence doesn’t derail the day.
• Communicate clearly and early: Use shared scheduling tools and set expectations so employees report absences right away.
• Track patterns & adjust staffing: Review absence trends and plan extra coverage during peak illness seasons.

At the end of the day, the easiest solution is to avoid the scheduling scramble altogether — keep your team healthy with Roxton disinfecting wipes.
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