I have a family member who is a police officer in a major city. When the pandemic first started to move they had to get tested regularly. He is not a big vax guy but not for the conspiracy reasons, just felt like he is younger and good shape, which he is. But when he was offered the vaccine he didn’t hesitate because his department’s policy was no more regular testing for vaccinated officers. Not getting a pipette shoved up your nose regularly can be a great incentive for the vaccine hesitant.
This would be more like free market capitalism. The same way a company can require drug testing, they can require vaccinations.
I thought conservatives were against having government regulate what businesses can and can't do. Every business should decide for itself what is best for their bottom line without interference from government, eh. So if a business believes that drug testing or vaccination for employees is beneficial to their business then it should be allowed. Welcome to the free market.
On this subject... The People Who’d Rather Quit Than Give Up Remote Work “I do not intend to ever again work in an office.” https://slate.com/human-interest/20...g-over-remote-work-going-back-to-office.html? Offices are increasingly bringing their employees back on site, and some people just don’t want to go. We’ve heard rumblings for a while now that workers are quitting, or threatening to quit, if they can’t continue to work from home. That’s because for many people remote work has been great—the lack of commute, flexible schedule, and more casual dress have provided a massive quality-of-life boon for many of us, to say nothing of the productivity increases some workers have discovered without regular interruptions from chatty colleagues. But are people really willing to quit their jobs if they can’t keep working in PJ’s? I’ve been curious about how real the trend is, so I asked readers at my work advice column, Ask a Manager … and ended up pretty surprised by the response. I heard from an enormous number of people who say that they’ll definitely quit if their job requires them to return to the office. This person speaks for a lot of others: My small office had essentially no remote work prior to the pandemic, but we went to everyone 100% remote during COVID and proved that we could still be just as effective. In discussions about the future of the office during the pandemic, a combination of remote and in-office was held out as likely. Now they’re making noise about a return to the office next month, and it’s unclear if the WFH portion is still in play. If they require 100% back in the office, I will be looking for a new job—I was spending 24 days of each year in a commute, and I’m not interested in returning to that. Not only are many people considering switching jobs if they have to go back to the office, but many have already done it. Here’s a sampling of what I heard: Asked my boss if we would consider full time remote (with maybe coming in for team meetings once a week). I was told that was “impossible.” Found a full time remote gig at a $5k pay cut and was gone in about a month after that conversation. I am much happier working from home and doubt I will ever return to a full time office job. I’m in the negotiation stage with a competitor offering my exact job with the exact same benefits/pay/etc. … but I can work from home. I’m genuinely sad to leave my job as I love the company and the people, but we have an “old school” CEO who doesn’t seem to want to budge on the issue. And I’m not the only one! Every person (save one) in an adjacent department has left over this issue. It’s madness and it’s REALLY going to affect the business. For background, I have a job where I sit in a cubicle and rarely interact with anyone. So why do I have to go to the office to do that? I’d have even been happy with a hybrid. But nope! So … off I go. I did quit over this. I am fortunate to have enough savings to coast for a few years if I need to without impacting my quality of life, and even longer if I tighten my belt. I do not intend to ever again work in an office or somewhere that requires a commute. I have the luxury of some amount of time and resources to pick and choose opportunities available to me, and I will fully leverage that. At the beginning of 2021 I learned that my company would have a “strong preference” for local employees to come back to the office. I started job hunting that week and just started a great position that’s fully remote. I respect an employer’s right to have employees where they want, but that comes with the employee’s right to work how they want. My job is well paying, I love my co-workers, I enjoy the type of work I do. But I also really enjoyed WFH, and they have just brought us back in the office this week and won’t give any word on adding a work remote policy until September. So I got curious, started job searching, and in a week found a similar job, better pay, completely remote. I gave notice last week, tomorrow is my last day. Everyone at work has been shocked that I am leaving. (More at above url. Note this is a perspectives article, not a hard data article with a survey)
Wait, so an ultra liberal site ran a blog and people anonymously wrote in that they supported what the blog writer wrote? Wow. Whocouldanode?
Absolutely. Every business should be able to decide for itself. Completely agree. The problem is, you like to tout this AND then push for the government to regulate the decision, so long as that decision aligns with your way of thinking.
This depends. What won't Ron DeSantis not allow businesses to decide for themselves? Whatever accusation you level, please provide support.