Companies could require employees to install coronavirus-tracing apps like this one from PwC
that makes these apps easier to build and more appealing to use while trying to guarantee some degree of user privacy.
"I think an employer-led model that can drive adoption to their employees, right now from surveys that we've done, I feel like we'll have a higher adoption rate," said Tom Puthiyamadam, a digital leader working on the project for PwC. PwC said that company execs and leaders in HR and operations are increasingly looking for tools like these to help re-open workplaces and that it's lined up hundreds of client calls and demos for the software.One benefit for management is the ability to pinpoint infection so that entire offices or floors aren't shut down from a single confirmed case of Covid-19.
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