However, for individuals who work in an industry that provides critical infrastructure, significantly altering work related contact patterns is likely not a possibility especially if the behaviour change needed to be implemented for up to 6 months.
Most work-related contacts were with patients (51%) or other staff members (40%); 9% were with other persons.
Employees with a high degree of flexibility tend to bring work home more often and have more work-related contacts whilst being at home (Schieman and Glavin 2008).
Similarly the additional effect of social distancing in terms of reducing work-related contacts might be observed through social contact information on weekend days.
Spousal influences are likely to become more important following retirement, as partners often spend considerably more time together and social networks are reduced due to a loss of work-related contacts [ 5].
For nurses, 51% of work-related contacts were with patients (74% involving skin-to-skin contact, and 63% lasted <15 minutes); 40% were with staff members (29% and 36%, respectively).
When the study was planned, we had expected the healthcare workers cohort to have a higher seroincidence than a group of community-dwelling adults, given previous reports of pandemic and nonpandemic influenza outbreaks in hospitals (19, 20 ), our own experience with SARS (1 ), and recent work showing the intensity of work-related contacts in the healthcare setting (3 ).
Be sure to include non-work-related contact information (like a Gmail or AOL email address) in your Profile's contact information.
Other additional features the company is working on include contact suggestions in the To: field based on related contacts in the past, phone number extraction and attachment search.
However, because patients' needs largely determine the nurses' number of work contacts and because the numbers of non work-related conon work-relatedarable for nurses and contacts, wereo not expecomparablelarge selection bias accounts for the differenurses
Questions were further asked about various specific aspects of personal close contacts (work-related, long duration [>5 min], physical), but these variables were only used to refine model fit and are not detailed here.
