The Hidden Burden of Long Covid and What Companies Can Do

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Around 18 million adults in the U.S. alone suffer from long Covid, a chronic illness with a wide range of symptoms and severity. With approved therapies a long way off, workers with long Covid often struggle in silence. And most companies have neither a good understanding of the situation nor effective policies in place, say MIT research scientist Beth Pollack and Vanguard University professor Ludmila Praslova. They share the conditions associated with long Covid, what life is like for those workers, and the accommodations and flexibility they recommend HR leaders and organizations implement. Pollack and Praslova are coauthors with researcher Katie Bach of the HBR Big Idea article “Long Covid at Work: A Manager's Guide.”

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0:57.0	A few years ago companies, managers and workers all had to adapt to a new reality.
1:09.0	Thanks to COVID-19, the pandemic created a huge shift in how and where we work that has endured.
1:16.0	But there's another lasting effect that many employers are just beginning to come to terms with,
1:21.0	and that's long COVID.
1:24.0	In the US alone, around 18 million people suffer from the illness with a wide range of symptoms.
1:29.8	It's not well understood, and medical research is ongoing to find the cause and treatments for it.
1:36.2	But employers can't wait for those.
1:38.4	Even if they don't realize it, many companies have a long COVID problem right now,
1:43.4	making it challenging for them to recruit and retain employees
1:47.0	and to support them in their work.
1:49.3	To help managers and HR departments with this,
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