The world breathed a sigh of relief when COVID-19 vaccinations started to be rolled out around the world a few months ago. While access to vaccinations are not projected to be widely available to all individuals before the summer, employers should still start considering their return to work strategies and the role they will play in the vaccination rollout to ensure their staff stay informed and can get back to their worksites as soon as safely possible.

The head of Operation Warp Speed, Dr. Moncef Slaoui, has said that 70% of the population will need to be immunized to allow true herd immunity to take place. Therefore, encouraging staff to get vaccinated and pointing them to helpful and trusted resources is an almost moral responsibility for employers. Plus, keeping up with all the questions being asked, directing people to relevant information, clarifying any PTO or related HR policies, and even tracking who has been vaccinated are all things which could create major challenges, and take up large amounts of time and resources for HR, Internal Comms and Operations teams.  

Fortunately, using The Bot Platform you can easily build a tool that helps your staff on Microsoft Teams stay informed and provides access to relevant information or policies whenever they need it, while also saving huge amounts of time and resources.