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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to set up routines that will help you,

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Speaker 1: your family, and your colleagues or employees stay healthy during

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Speaker 1: the winter. Illness feels horrible, of course, and it can

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Speaker 1: also wreak havoc on your schedule, whether it's you getting sick,

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Speaker 1: your kids getting sick, or both. Organizations likewise, can wind

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Speaker 1: up in a tough spot when the entire sales department

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Speaker 1: comes down with the stomach bug. If you're running an organization,

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Speaker 1: here's what you shouldn't do. Be stingy with sick days.

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Speaker 1: This just backfires. One study from account Tempts found that

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of professionals had come into the office sick,

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Speaker 1: generally because they felt they had so much work to

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Speaker 1: do or because they felt they had to spare the

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Speaker 1: sick days for something Even worse. Sick people get other

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Speaker 1: people sick, and when they don't take it easy, they

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Speaker 1: prolong their illnesses or make them worse. Now, I know

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Speaker 1: there's some gray area and some of those ninety percent

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Speaker 1: might be just a small case of the sniffles. One

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Speaker 1: way to deal with this is to have a very

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Speaker 1: liberal work from home policy. If your company does this

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Speaker 1: sort of work that can be done flexibly, then make

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Speaker 1: it clear that anyone feeling under the weather but mostly

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Speaker 1: functional is welcome to work as they can from home

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Speaker 1: without taking PTO. Anyone caring for a sick child who

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Speaker 1: doesn't need constant attention is welcome to do the same.

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Speaker 1: You will buy incredible employee loyalty this way. As for

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Speaker 1: individual habits, well, I know this sounds trite, but really

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Speaker 1: wash your hands when you use the soap in a

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Speaker 1: public restroom. Do you check that you get a big glob?

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Speaker 1: Do you really scrub it around everywhere? Front, back, your wrists,

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Speaker 1: your nails. Does your hand washing take the full twenty seconds?

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Speaker 1: It's supposed to be careful what surfaces you touch after

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Speaker 1: washing your hands, too. Door handles and light switches can

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Speaker 1: be interesting places under a microscope, especially in winter. Make

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Speaker 1: it a family rule that everyone washes hands when they

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Speaker 1: come in the door. Kids getting off a bus can

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Speaker 1: drop their backpacks, take off their shoes and heads straight

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Speaker 1: to the sink before getting a snack. Put a bottle

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Speaker 1: of hand sanitizer in your car so people can use

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Speaker 1: it whenever they get in after touching the outside world.

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Speaker 1: Kids can attach portable bottles of hand sanitizer to their

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Speaker 1: backpacks or keep them in their lockers to use before lunch.

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Speaker 1: Put a big bottle of hand sanitizer on your desk

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Speaker 1: and use a squirt every time you get back there.

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Speaker 1: If someone in your household does get sick, it can

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Speaker 1: be really tough to keep it from spreading. I know

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Speaker 1: in my house, if a stomach bug has hit three children,

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Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time before it hits the fourth.

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Speaker 1: But using disinfecting wipes on surface says like door handles

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Speaker 1: can help. Aside from hand washing and disinfecting, part of

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Speaker 1: staying healthy is just taking care of yourself in general.

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Speaker 1: So get enough sleep. Remember that going to bed early

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Speaker 1: is how grown ups sleep in. Eat your fruits and vegetables,

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Speaker 1: manage your stress, and get some physical activity. But if

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Speaker 1: you do go to the gym, make sure you use

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Speaker 1: the hand sanitizer after touching cardio equipment or weights. Bacteria

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Speaker 1: and viruses turn out to be more faithful gym goers

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Speaker 1: than many of us are. In the meantime, this is Laura,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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