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Jamie Dimon
: The JPMorgan boss is a clear supporter of Covid vaccinations, also because he believes that permanent home office paralyzes productivity
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Too slow, too little, too bureaucratic - Germany can do a lot, just not vaccinate and test properly.
The criticism of the vaccination strategy in this country is loud, and in fact Germany lags behind with a rate of 3.5 percent second vaccinations (status 15.3) in an international comparison.
It is also far too slow for many companies that want a return to normal working conditions.
"Scandalously slow," as the head of the Baywa conglomerate,
Klaus-Josef Lutz
(62), recently let his anger run free.
These companies send corona self-tests to the home office or have them tested in their own canteen.
Corona tests create freedom - at least for a short time.
Whoever wants more has to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate.
Here, too, companies want to take on responsibility and have their employees immunized through company doctors - on a voluntary basis and in compliance with the recommended vaccination sequence, as surveys show.
Baywa boss Lutz would even pay for the vaccines out of his own pocket, as would Post boss
Frank Appel
(59).
But according to the official vaccination strategy, the 12,000 company doctors should only become active when there are enough vaccines.
After the nationwide (provisional) stop of the Astrazeneca campaign here, this could become even more of a problem.
Even if the vaccine were released again, many would now be even more suspicious of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine.
And the companies understandably do not want to be liable for possible vaccine damage.
With the shot from the boss, there should be nothing in this country so quickly.
Lidl US pays employees a $ 200 vaccination bonus
Elsewhere, governments and companies deal more pragmatically with this question: They lure their employees with one-off bonuses or bill for additional hours not worked.
Lidl in the USA, for example, pays its employees 200 dollars for a completed corona vaccination.
Also in the USA, competitors Aldi and the department store chain Dollar General are crediting their employees with 143,000 additional hours worked.
The yoghurt manufacturers Chobanid and Danone are giving their employees a day of paid vacation on the same occasion, reports Bloomberg.
The message behind the offers is clear: If you stay ready for us, we will reward you. At the same time, the company bosses want to accelerate the return from the home office to the usual workplace.
In many places, after a year of working from home, the realization is that the corporate culture is suffering, the productivity of the teams is falling - a fact that Boston Consulting has already pointed out.
Other companies, on the other hand, do not lure, but try the hard way - and are thus walking a fine line legally. The British craftsman chain Pimlico Plumbers, for example, wants to pursue a "no-jab-no-job" strategy.
That means: if you don't get vaccinated as an employee, you risk your job.
And the US airline United Airlines also wants to make vaccinations compulsory, according to Bloomberg, which calls on the unions.
"No jab, no job" - when bosses order vaccinations
What companies are allowed to demand from their employees when it comes to vaccinations differs from country to country.
In numerous US states, employers can fire their employees for any reason - for example, if they refuse an ordered corona vaccination, it is said.
It remains to be seen whether this will actually be implemented in practice.
Currently, just 1 percent of US companies have ordered a Covid vaccination for their employees.
Another 6 percent plan to do so as soon as the vaccines are readily available, quoted Bloomberg from a survey of 1,800 corporate lawyers, HR managers and executives.
In the UK, where workers' rights are more prominent, the UK government leaves it up to companies to set the vaccination requirements for their workforce.
At the same time, however, she warns employers against discrimination if they insist on a vaccination.
"We want people to take it"
JP Morgan CEO
Jamie Dimon
When it comes to vaccinating employees, JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon
(65) has a "carrot and stick" strategy.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, the head of the largest US bank said: "We want people to take it."
Knowing that laws oppose a possible compulsory vaccination, he added: "It is difficult to make it compulsory."
That is why the bank will for the time being waive its employees' obligation to vaccinate.
What you should know: Dimon is not a fan of the home office because productivity can suffer, he believes.
In order to document that work in the office could be possible and safe even at the height of the pandemic, Dimon demonstratively preferred the bank to the home office for long stretches of the past year.
A fifth of the workforce followed him into the offices by mid-October.
However, it is not known whether Dimon has already been vaccinated against Covid.
Allianz is planning vaccination lines at the major locations
Allianz boss
Oliver Bäte
(56), on the other hand, confessed last summer that he likes to work from home in order to combine the commitment with cost-saving plans.
However, Europe's largest insurer would also immunize its employees against the corona virus as soon as possible.
To this end, Allianz is planning up to 25 vaccination lines at its largest locations in Germany.
"We don't want vaccination refusal to become part of the Unilever culture"
Unilever boss
Alan Jope
And then there are the CEOs who, with persistent commitment and role model function, advertise vaccination among their employees.
Unilever boss
Alan Jope
(58), it is said, encourages the 150,000 employees of the group to be vaccinated in a weekly email and has company doctors advertise a vaccination in virtual town hall meetings with up to 14,000 employees every two weeks.
"We do not want vaccination refusal to become part of the Unilever culture," Bloomberg quotes the CEO.
Nestlé boss
Mark Schneider
(55), on the other hand, announced that if a vaccine was available, he would "be vaccinated in front of all of our people in order to set an example".
In Israel, which is known to have vaccinated large parts of its population, Nestlé subsidiary Osem Investments tends to follow the "carrot and stick" dictum: the company does not allow employees to go to their workplaces unless they are vaccinated present a negative Covid test every three days.
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