Jo Trizila, left, president and CEO of Trizcom Public Relations, conducts a meeting Jan. 21 as Ann Littmann sits by at Trizila’s offices in Dallas. The recent flu outbreak can really impact small businesses with small staffs and hurt a company’s productivity. Some owners, like Trizila, are trying to mitigate the damage so the flu will not become a nightmare when they’re trying to get clients’ work done. (AP Photo: LM Otero)