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"As the impact of COVID-19 continues to evolve beyond physical illness, many are faced with economic challenges as numerous non-essential businesses and their employees have faced temporary closures and subsequent layoffs. Additionally, service-based industries including travel and food preparation are seeing reductions in business as are those in manufacturing and construction. In many instances, businesses have closed in order to reduce the risk of infection.

This handout from Homewood Health is intended as an aide to support yourself, other employees and family members as a result of the questions and possible anxiety that has arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Could remote working be the new normal for work workplaces? We’re getting a taste of what that looks and feels like right now...  This article is all about the advantages of having a remote workforce, and the key factors employers and managers must consider for their virtual work environments to be successful."

Homewood Health has two articles attached below, one for employees and another for Managers.

Navigating these uncertain times with the COVID-19 virus may cause you to experience feelings of anxiety, loneliness or stress.  Wellness@Work offers deep compassion to you at this challenging time and hope that some of these resources help you cope with stress or anxiety you may be experiencing.

Access to counselling is available to U of G employees 24 hours per day, seven days per week through the University's EFAP provider, Homewood Employee Health toll-free at 1-800-663-1142.

Homewood Health has created  this handout as an aide to support yourself, other employees and family members as a result of the abundance of information available from the media and online related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

View the handout.

Homewood Health has put together a resource that outlines different symptoms of COVID-19 and the differences between self-monitoring, self-isolation and quarantine. 

"As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise globally and throughout Canada, many employers are reviewing operations and core functions to make decisions surrounding employee self-isolation or quarantine in an effort to limit the risk of infection and potential harm to employees and others."

Please note that most wellness activities at the University have been cancelled until further notice.

The University of Guelph is providing regular updates and new information on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Information web page.

Occupational Health and Wellness has provided links to articles with facts and general information about COVID-19 from Homewood Health:

View the full March Wellness@Work calendar with hyperlinks to activities below.

Featured events for March include:

March is Nutrition Month.

Throughout the month of March, Wellness@Work is challenging faculty and staff to make your Monday meals meatless.

Keep track of your meals using the worksheet attached.

Submit it by April 3, 2020 for your chance to win a prize (including a cookbook made by the Child Care Learning Centre).

Consider nominating a faculty, staff member or student who is an outstanding community volunteer for the Dr. William Winegard Exemplary Volunteer Involvement Awards.

United Way of Guelph Wellington Dufferin and the People and Information Network (PIN) have partnered with the University of Guelph through these awards to recognize volunteers who have: