Flu Peaks Exactly When You Cannot Spare Anyone
Influenza activity in BC climbs through November and December and usually peaks around the turn of the year. That is precisely your Q4 volume peak - the weeks when a missing picker is not an inconvenience but a missed service level.
A worker with influenza is typically out for several days, and in a warehouse they will have shared air, touchpoints and a break room with dozens of colleagues before they knew they were sick. The arithmetic is not complicated: a clinic that costs you a fraction of a shift per employee sits against multi-day absences at the worst possible moment.
Warehouse staff are also structurally unlikely to get vaccinated on their own. Shifts end when pharmacies close. Many are casual or agency. Telling them the shot is free somewhere else produces very little.
You are not paying for vaccine. We supply influenza vaccine through Fraser Health, so the publicly funded dose your staff would get at a pharmacy is the dose they get on your floor. What you pay for is the nurses and the logistics - the part that turns intention into a vaccinated workforce.
We already work in BC distribution and warehousing - see hearing testing for warehousing and distribution.