Follow news and updates from the Gartner HR practice on Twitter and LinkedIn using #GartnerHR. The Gartner HR practice brings together the best relevant content approaches across Gartner to offer individual decision makers strategic business advice on the mission-critical priorities that cut across the HR function. Follow news and updates from the Gartner Legal & Compliance Practice on LinkedIn and Twitter. The Gartner Legal & Compliance practice brings together in-depth research and analysis, peer-based best practices, metrics and data to offer legal and compliance leaders a platform to make the choices that will drive their business forward and deliver results. Gartner clients can learn more by reading the report “Executive Pulse: Employers Mandating Vaccines Increases Threefold After Biden Announcement.”Ībout the Gartner Legal & Compliance Practice “Legal and compliance leaders will need to think through the implications of assuming responsibility for employee health data with related administrative work, along with policies to limit confrontation and disruptions related to non-compliant employees.” “While organizational leaders feel more confident in setting vaccine and testing policies in light of new developments, much of their original hesitancy about the drawbacks of such policies remain,” said Audet. Additionally, more than half of respondents feared the impact on company culture and employee morale, and they had general concerns on managing employees who refused the vaccine without an approved exemption. Sixty-nine percent of respondents feared a vaccine mandate will spur employee turnover due to resignations or terminations. The polling data also revealed significant concerns among executives about the consequences of new mandates, even as they move towards implementing the policies in greater numbers. Fifteen percent of executives said their organizations will terminate non-compliant employees, with organizations split on whether they will administer some form of on-site testing, utilize third-party testing services, or require employees to be responsible for their own testing. There is little consensus among executives on how their organizations will address remaining unvaccinated employees and the details of specific testing strategies.
“This shift in responsibility makes it easier for companies to implement a vaccine mandate.” “The latest federal guidance gives private sector employers the ability to shift the responsibility for requiring vaccination from the organization to the government,” said Brian Kropp, chief of research in the Gartner HR practice. The new survey data on vaccine mandates showed that only 17% of survey respondents reported that they will not require vaccine mandates (see Figure 1). “It is likely that we will see a clear majority of firms instituting mandates of some kind by the end of the year, considering that 36% of respondents are still unsure of their organization’s plans.” “The new federal guidance, as well as the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta wave, have combined to shift executive opinion on vaccine mandates significantly since the beginning of the year,” said Chris Audet, senior director, research, in the Gartner Legal & Compliance practice. On September 15, 2021, Gartner polled 272 legal, compliance and HR executives following new federal guidance on vaccine mandates for health workers and updated Occupational, Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations on vaccine and testing requirements for employees.
In Germany, the number of new coronavirus infections exceeded 200,000 in a day for the first time on Thursday, hitting staffing at companies such as Lufthansa Cargo.Forty-six percent of organizations now plan to institute a vaccine mandate where legally permissible, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc.The European Medicines Agency on Thursday gave the green light to the use of Pfizer’s antiviral covid-19 pill for treating adults at risk of severe illness, as the region scrambles to boost its arsenal to fight the omicron variant.She added that the decision could be revisited if the research changed or if a new variant altered the pandemic. “With the knowledge we have today, with a low risk for serious disease for kids, we don’t see any clear benefit with vaccinating them,” Health Agency official Britta Bjorkholm said at a news conference Thursday. Google announced a similar policy earlier this morning. offices to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Facebook said on Wednseday it expects revenue growth to 'decelerate significantly.' It also announced that it would require anyone working at its U.S. Sweden has decided against recommending coronavirus vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday J09:25PM from the what-to-expect dept.frontier are vaccinated but a minority have refused, saying the mandate contravenes personal freedom. Industry officials say 90 percent of drivers traversing the U.S. In Canada, truck drivers upset by a federal government vaccine mandate for cross-border drivers converged on the capital, Ottawa, on Thursday, to stage a protest.