Employers Make H1N1 Flu Precautions

PHOENIX - What if everyone in your office got the H1N1 flu? How would your business operate? One businessman is building a plan that would keep your business running if all the staff is out sick.

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Mike Hayes is ready to help out companies who could soon find themselves short-staffed.

Imagine this -- a kid at school gets sick, and gives it to their parents. The parents go to work and get their coworkers sick. It's a realistic scenario. If the government's predictions are right, businesses could be hit hard by the swine flu too.

Schools are already gearing up to fight the virus, but are businesses?

"[The government is] basically saying 30 to 40 percent of your workforce. If that was to happen, not only would you have to have a backup plan for them, now that they have exposed the other 60. You will have to have a backup plan for that," says Hayes, who runs Momentum Specialized Staffing.

The government has issued some scary predictions about this flu. They're trying to put out an H1N1 vaccine by Thanksgiving .