Engineering company Thornton Tomasetti is offering companies
use of their specially developed app’ to help get employees back to work.
Engineers from the firm’s CORE studio developed the Healthy
Reentry app to speed the safe return of the firm’s own employees in more than
50 offices around the world.
The firm also shared the app with colleagues in the
architecture, engineering and construction industries who wanted to get their
teams back to work as safely and simply as possible.
Now, the company said it wants to help other companies do
the same.
“We set out
with the goal to create a tool that prioritizes the health and safety of our
employees,” said Thornton Tomasetti Chief Technology Officer Robert
Otani. “As health
monitoring and contact tracing will be the new normal as companies slowly move
back to their offices, we decided to make this app available to everyone to
help ease the process.”
Here is how it works: Employees
can report their health status through the app, which is accessible via smart
phone or computer, and whether they are working from home or in the office.
They will also receive regular reminders to update any changes to their health.
Once
in the workplace, they can document “encounters,” or incidents where person-to-person
contact breaches a company’s health and safety protocols. If the employees
involved in these encounters remain healthy, the information is simply logged
for future reference. However, if someone tests positive for COVID-19, HR app
will alert a company’s human resources department or management team, who then
will be able to determine if any other employees have been exposed and act
accordingly.
“In order to safely return to the office, each employee needs to
meet local, state and company requirements,” Otani said. “Through
the Healthy Reentry app, we can ensure employees are operating in a safe
environment while preserving their privacy.”
Setting up the
application for a firm’s unique authentication and security requirements and
branding does require software development skills. For additional information,
contact [email protected]
