Survey on what would motivate workers to get vaccinated

Workers are more likely to get vaccinated — if their companies provide one big perk Most employers so far have shied away from mandating COVID-19 shots. Meera Jagannathan MarketWatch

Workers seem to be biting at the “carrot” approach to nudge COVID-19 vaccinations, a new report suggests.

About half of adult workers report their employer gave them paid time off to receive the shot or recuperate from side effects, while two in three say their employer has encouraged coronavirus vaccination, according to the latest polling from KFF, a healthcare think tank.

And workers whose employers take these approaches are more likely to be immunized: About three in four workers whose employers provided time off for vaccination or recovery said they had received at least one vaccine dose, compared to half of workers whose employers did not. A similar pattern emerged for workers whose employers encouraged vaccination (73% versus 41%).

“Getting more Americans vaccinated isn’t only up to the government,” KFF president and CEO Drew Altman said in a statement. “Even without requiring workers to get a vaccine, employers can play a role by offering paid time off to get vaccinated and encouraging their workers to do so.”

Meanwhile, more than half of overall respondents said employers should require employees to get vaccinated unless they have a medical exemption, and less than four in 10 said employers should offer cash bonuses or other incentives for vaccination.

But a majority of workers (61%) don’t want their employer to institute a mandate, with vaccinated workers evenly split on the issue and unvaccinated workers overwhelmingly opposing a requirement.

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what would motivate immunizations among people who are unvaccinated, including those who want to “wait and see” how the vaccine works out for others?

Companies and states across the country have launched incentive programs to boost vaccine uptake.

Topping the list was full Food and Drug Administration approval of the vaccines, which are currently being used under a less-rigorous but faster type of clearance called emergency-use authorization. (Only a third of adults overall are actually aware of this authorization distinction, KFF noted, so that data point “may be a proxy for more general concerns about safety.”)

what would motivate immunizations among people who are unvaccinated, including those who want to “wait and see” how the vaccine works out for others?

Companies and states across the country have launched incentive programs to boost vaccine uptake.

Topping the list was full Food and Drug Administration approval of the vaccines, which are currently being used under a less-rigorous but faster type of clearance called emergency-use authorization. (Only a third of adults overall are actually aware of this authorization distinction, KFF noted, so that data point “may be a proxy for more general concerns about safety.”) ...

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