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With wildfires increasingly impacting states across the U.S., employers need to be prepared for a new era of disaster-readiness.
The Canadian wildfires continue to impact states in the Northwest, Northeast and the central Great Plains, coming all the way down to Alabama and Georgia. At its peak in June, the wildfires placed 128 million people under air quality alerts, with New York registering the worst air quality in the world at the time.
Deanna Cuadra is a senior reporter at Employee Benefit News. Her work covers healthcare, U.S. policy and reform, challenges faced by women and parents in the workplace and innovation in work culture … Read full bio
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