Vaccine adoption in the workplace: Here’s what to ask yourself

Employers will want to keep employees informed and over-communicate their plans, especially around cost coverage for the vaccine. (Photo: Shutterstock)

With a year behind us, we are still seeing the repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, some would say we are beginning to see some light at the end of a long tunnel thanks to the Pfizer/BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines that are up to 95% effective. In fact, the CDC announced that people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do things that they had stopped because of the pandemic, including gathering indoors without masks with close family and loved ones and even traveling.

As the COVID-19 vaccination becomes more widely available to Americans, employers need to start thinking about and planning for how to best prepare and support their employees from a health and safety, educational and legal perspective.