On the optimal presence strategies for workplace during pandemics: A COVID-19 inspired probabilistic model.

ABSTRACT: During pandemics like COVID-19, both the quality and quantity of services offered by businesses and organizations have been severely impacted. They often have applied a hybrid home office setup to overcome this problem, although in some situations, working from home lowers employee productivity. So, increasing the rate of presence in the office is frequently desired from the manager's standpoint. On the other hand, as the virus spreads through interpersonal contact, the risk of infection increases when workplace occupancy rises. Motivated by this trade-off, in this paper, we model this problem as a bi-objective optimization problem and propose a practical approach to find the trade-off solutions. We present a new probabilistic framework to compute the expected number of infected employees

SUBMITTER: Davoodi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10180602 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature