Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, and Netflix announced this week that employees that want to return to working together in the office must get vaccinated before doing so, a sign of new public alarm over the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus.
Many tech companies have delayed their return to the office, such as Lyft, Twitter, and Google, while some will even require masks to be worn for vaccinated people in the office, such as Apple.
“You just don’t feel like you can protect your employees to the extent that you want to, and it makes you then lean in a little bit to kind of raise the bar around your expectations,” Francine Katsoudas, Cisco’s head of human resources, told the Wall Street Journal.
“I think everyone was trying initially to just respect everyone’s perspective around what they want to do [on vaccines], but we know that if we do that, we could create a pretty serious situation,” she added.
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Many of the companies have pushed back their return to the office and are mulling mask mandates due to the increased dangers of the delta variant of the coronavirus, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said might make even vaccinated people contagious.
Tech companies Twitter and Cisco, which were already requiring employees who came back to the office to show proof of vaccination, announced this week that this policy will extend to the fall.
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Many other corporations have also required vaccines in order to return to the office, such as financial giants BlackRock and Morgan Stanley, department store Saks Fifth Avenue, and United and Delta airlines, for newly hired employees.
