Making vaccinations mandatory most likely isn't an avenue to prevent your employees from contracting a disease, but there are some actions you can take. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Between addressing employee experience and finding ways to keep talent in an economy with such a low unemployment rate, companies have enough on their plate to make sure there's no slowdown in business operations. The last thing businesses need is an illness outbreak to interrupt the flow of work.

In the U.S., the biggest fear of people not reporting to work outside of the flu and the common cold is food poisoning from a company lunch event.

At least food poisoning isn't contagious. And we've done a pretty good job at addressing flu in the workplace, but another disease may be about to find its way into the office, surprisingly, is measles.