The importance of psychological contracts for safe work during pandemics

[...]we propose psychological contracts, specifically in relation to workplace health and safety (Rousseau, 1989;Walker & Hutton, 2006), as an area warranting greater attention at this time from researchers practitioners alike. According recent prepandemic estimates, 10% of workers the United States are exposed work disease or infection more than once per week 18.4% month (Barker etal., 2020). [...]it is estimated that pandemic exposure may be elsewhere, which has implications for transmission communities [...]although federal, state, local authorities have issued a variety pandemic-related guidelines legal responsibilities employers toward creating safe environments employees, especially those higher risk infection, there also considerable complexity these guidelines.