Companies are likely to get more aggressive about vaccine mandates, as workers support harsher measures against unvaccinated employees, surveys show.
of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot paves the way for companies to get more aggressive with inoculations, American workers are increasingly supportive of punitive measures for unvaccinated colleagues.
The rapid spread of the Delta variant has disrupted plans to get workers back to the office and spurred companies such as Facebook, Citigroup and Walt Disney Co. to impose vaccine requirements for employees. President Biden on Monday called for more corporateand is counting on the Pfizer approval to help ease hesitancy among vaccine holdouts. Yet there remains a broad swath of people who may be unmoved without other measures.
More aggressive options include levying surcharges on healthcare premiums, as some companies already do for smokers, or denying free coffee, fitness rooms or other perks to the unvaccinated, according to human resources consultants. Some employers are even rearranging office layouts to give more desirable real estate to vaccinated workers.
One is the healthcare surcharge, which has become a “hot topic of conversation,” according to Mercer’s Symons. “It might move the needle if employees know that if they are not vaccinated, it will come out of their paycheck.”
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