I got a call from a client last week. He asked if I I knew of someone who had a driver's license, who was reliable that his company could use as a driver / courier. I asked what had happened to the person who normally did this job.
He has been signed off sick for a week - again. We are not sure why.
Is it HIV? Is it HIV related? We don't know, and we may never know. What we DO know is that his business is now in desperate need of a skilled person, at short notice.
This is how HIV affects the business. It is not an aggressive, full frontal assault on the company, threatening corporate takeover. It is the subtle, gnawing away of skills, institutional memory, communication nodes, and relationships. The things that actually make business happen.
Your business is not going to close down tomorrow becuase of HIV. But if you don't do something about it, HIV is going to affect your business. Sooner or later you too will face a situation where a key member of staff; maybe not a highly skilled one, maybe not a highly paid one, but one that is central to your operations, one that acts as a linchpin in daily operations, is affected by HIV. That is going to impact on your business.
So what are you doing about minimising this impact?
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