Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
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Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#2oh snap.
I totally understand this measure and, for the record, agree with it, but I'm picturing the pushback that this will lead to.
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#3To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs.
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#4To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs.
But Google is also planning on requiring people to go back to the office starting September. You can apply for a transfer to a remote position, but that requires that there be a remote position available for you to take and then finding it and matching into it. So yeah, sounds like unless you are already remote, they are requiring you take the vaccine in order to keep your job.
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#5To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs.
Exactly -- people are still free to not get vaccinated, but they're not free to go to aggregate settings where they might infect everyone there, which seems like a reasonable compromise.
It's the same approach as with antivax parents -- don't want your kids vaccinated? Then you'll need to homeschool them.
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#6To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs.
Thanks, I've edited the title to include the full headline. It didn't fully fit in the input box, so I had trimmed it.
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#7To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs.
Exactly -- people are still free to not get vaccinated, but they're not free to go to aggregate settings where they might infect everyone there, which seems like a reasonable compromise. It's the same approach as with antivax parents -- don't want your kids vaccinated? Then you'll need to homeschool them.
But if others are already vaccinated, how does an unvaccinated coworker infect a vaccinated coworker?
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#8> We will have a process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons
What might "other reasons" be?
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly -- people are still free to not get vaccinated, but they're not free to go to aggregate settings where they might infect everyone there, which seems like a reasonable compromise. It's the same approach as with antivax parents -- don't want your kids vaccinated? Then you'll need to homeschool them.
But if others are already vaccinated, how does an unvaccinated coworker infect a vaccinated coworker?
IIRC, unvaccinated are more likely to get infected and also typically have higher viral loads, which corresponds to higher infectiousness.
Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
#10> We will have a process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons What might "other reasons" be?
Religious most likely