‘Clear Majority’ to Back Vaccine Mandates by Year-End: Gartner
Nearly half of U.S. organizations plan to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a Gartner survey found. The research company canvassed 272 legal, compliance and human resources executives Sept. 15, finding 46% plan to require employees to get fully vaccinated, with 17%…
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shunning mandates and the rest not sure. Gartner took the poll days after President Joe Biden announced the Labor Department will develop an emergency rule, under Occupational Safety and Health Administration authority, requiring employees in large companies to show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result at least once a week. The new “federal guidance,” plus the “ongoing surge” in the delta variant, “have combined to shift executive opinion on vaccine mandates significantly since the beginning of the year,” said Gartner. “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 polling unearthed “significant concerns” among executives about the “consequences” of new mandates, even as more companies are embracing them more widely, said Gartner. It found seven in 10 respondents expressing fear that mandates “will spur employee turnover due to resignations or terminations,” it said. More than half said they had “general concerns on managing employees who refused the vaccine without an approved exemption,” it said.