{"id":49009,"date":"2025-03-13T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/?p=49009"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:16:40","slug":"employers-told-to-be-more-conscious-of-hygiene-practices-amid-office-return-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/news\/employers-told-to-be-more-conscious-of-hygiene-practices-amid-office-return-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Employers told to be more &#8216;conscious&#8217; of hygiene practices amid office return in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Resource Directors (HRD) recently interviewed COS Co-CEO Amie Lyone about our latest survey, exploring hygiene practices among employees returning to the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the findings of the study was that 46% of survey participants worry about getting sick at work, highlighting the lasting impact of pandemic-era hygiene awareness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amie Lyone noted that some businesses have become less consistent with hygiene measures. With office-return mandates on the rise, employers are being urged to maintain strong hygiene practices amid rising concerns about illness transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more findings from the COS survey, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/employee-engagement\/employers-told-to-be-more-conscious-of-hygiene-practices-amid-office-return-in-australia\/528147\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/employee-engagement\/employers-told-to-be-more-conscious-of-hygiene-practices-amid-office-return-in-australia\/528147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-49009 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='49009' data-nonce='d5082879b2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Did you find this useful?' \/><span class='lc-49009 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style3 unlike-49009 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='49009' data-nonce='d5082879b2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='' \/><span class='unlc-49009 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-49009 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Resource Directors (HRD) recently interviewed COS Co-CEO Amie Lyone about our latest survey, exploring hygiene practices among employees returning to the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the findings of the study was that 46% of survey participants worry about getting sick at work, highlighting the lasting impact of pandemic-era hygiene awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49009"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49059,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009\/revisions\/49059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}