Abstract:
Diseases are not alien to human society. Corona virus disease 2019 is highly dreaded due to
its high infectious capacity and its worldwide coverage. It violates geographical boundaries to
attack people of all colours, races and ages, which represent the human resource of the
organisations and countries. When the health of the employees is compromised, the
productive activities within an organisation and nation will suffer. Using secondary source of
data, it was discovered that there is high reduction in the quantity of goods and services
produced on the part of the organisations, thereby resulting in low mobility of labour, low
recruitment, poor human resource planning, reduction in wages and salaries, frustration of
employment contracts and layoffs. It is recommended that government should create a post
covid-19 enabling environment where businesses can thrive, organisations should provide the
health and safety equipment to employees at workplace, employees should adhere to all
safety measures in order to curb the pandemic and use the lockdown to improve their skills
and competences by taking advantage of the online programmes that are related to their job
performance.
