The vaccine mandate reckoning

This morning in DealBook: a Willis Towers Watson survey polled nearly 1,000 companies that together employ almost 10 million people, and:

• 52 percent plan to have vaccine mandates by the end of the year (including 21 percent that already do).
• 78 percent plan to track employees’ vaccination status (55 percent already do).
• 17 percent are considering health insurance premium rewards or surcharges to encourage vaccination (2 percent already do).

Meanwhile, at the same time, the Conference Board polled 2,400 USA workers, and:

• 42 percent said they were worried about returning to work for fear of contracting Covid or exposing family members to the virus, up from 24 percent of respondents in a survey in June.
• 29 percent said they were unsure if they would remain at their current job for the next six months. Among those looking for jobs, 80 percent said that their employer’s stance on flexible work arrangements was very or moderately important in their decision to look elsewhere.

Lot of different themes here. What can we learn?

The vaccine reckoning

So as not to belabor this point, offices are made up of many different types of people and ideologies. Even when we think of a “tech” place…