COVID-19

The Biden administration will issue rules requiring large private employers to mandate shots or testing.

Continued dissatisfaction at work may contribute to the labor shortage.

Companies need to carefully design their incentives and penalties to ensure they don’t disproportionately affect lower-paid workers.

Employers, fearing a backlash, frame the policy as a choice, with both sides of the equation seen as effective in reducing the spread of COVID.

“The pandemic has delivered solutions to manage the risk of carrying the virus and passing it to your colleagues, and that is to work from home.”

Health management platform CLEARED4 is helping organizations make a reopening plan that will keep workers safe.

"Equality is something that happens when it is taken into account in all walks of life and policy,” says Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin.

Companies such as Ford, Apple, Google, Lyft and Uber have announced new vaccine mandates and delayed return-to-office plans altogether.

“We didn’t feel comfortable bringing them back based on the Covid data we see today,” Kiersten Robinson, Ford’s human resources chief, told Bloomberg.

Users can learn ways to keep track of organizing a loved one’s meds or scheduling a CT scan with help of a physician that the platform provides.