NEW DELHI : Retailers are rotating staff, implementing quarantines, ensuring employees are double-vaccinated and frequently sanitizing their premises to ensure business continuity, at a time the third wave of covid-19 sweeps across the country.
Retailer Tanishq said it is back to following a roaster—deploying two teams in a store in case any employees test positive. “First and foremost, we’ve taken the safety protocols back to the highest level that existed earlier, which we had relaxed.
Secondly, we have ensured that we are doing frequent sanitization inside the stores. Thirdly, one very important piece is we are rostering 50:50, that is, like we have a team A and team B," said Ajoy Chawla, chief executive officer (CEO), jewellery division, Titan Co.
Ltd. If a worker in a team falls ill, the rest of the team is quarantined and the other team manages the store. Department store chain Lifestyle said all its employees are double-vaccinated. “As and when cases emerge, we quarantine those employees.