HACKER Q&A
📣 brodouevencode

Is your company making vaccination mandatory?


We've seen this week that Delta Airlines has made it mandatory for employees to be vaccinated or face a fine [1]. Other companies are also making this move or at least reporting vaccination status [2][3], spurred on by calls from politicians[4][5][6]. However there may be fall out from that [7].

Has your company made vaccination mandatory? If so, how has it been received from your point of view? If not, do you think your company will at some point make it mandatory?

If you have not been vaccinated but your company has made it mandatory, will you get it? If not, do you plan to leave? If so, what kind of timeline did they give you to be vaccinated.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/covid-costs-billions-so-delta-to-charge-unvaxxed-airline-workers-200-month/

[2] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-07/list-employers-with-covid-19-vaccine-mandates

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-is-now-requiring-all-u-s-salaried-workers-to-report-their-vaccination-status-11629996274

[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-make-covid-19-vaccines-mandatory-2021-07-13/

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/us/pfizer-vaccine-mandates.html

[6] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/guides-pubs/downloads/vacc_mandates_chptr13.pdf

[7] https://whyy.org/articles/a-philly-doctor-made-the-covid-19-vaccine-mandatory-then-he-lost-7-staff-members/


  👤 raxxorrax Accepted Answer ✓
No. I am not surprised airlines try to mandate it though. They face existential problems in another lockdown. They also tried to advertise vaccination passes because that might allow them to operate.

I think these businesses like health care and education are the exception for mandates. Not based in the US and panic about the disease has been lower here and I don't think mandates have a large acceptance.


👤 desine
Not yet, but our clients are discussing it, which would trickle down to us. We're already short engineers and I'm certain we would lose a few more, which would put them both in a tight spot.

👤 philpulman
I heard some rumors about that, but they're not happy with it definitely...I'm not comfortable with that.