According to a new poll, half of American workers support workplace vaccine mandates.
Among other findings:
- Interestingly, more remote employees (59%) favor vaccine requirements in their workplace than those working onsite (47%).
- 50% of onsite workers favor mask mandates, and 29% oppose them.
- Over half (59%) of remote workers support a mask mandate.
- 6 in 10 college graduates support both mask and vaccine mandates, compared to about 4 in 10 workers who aren’t college graduates.
One poll respondent who works remotely says that he requested that his employer institute a vaccine mandate. He observes, “I don’t want to sit in an office for eight hours a day with someone who is not vaccinated. The people who are anti-vax, I see them as selfish.”
While a number of organizations are mandating vaccines for workers, some are concerned about losing staff when workforce shortages are already at an all-time high.
