Around 5 percent of unvaccinated adults quit their jobs over Covid vaccine mandates, survey shows

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Five percent of unvaccinated adults say they have left a job due to a vaccine mandate, according to a survey released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

This early read on whether workers will actually quit their jobs over mandates comes as more employers are requiring shots. One-quarter of workers surveyed by KFF in October said their employer has required them to get vaccinated, up from 9 percent in June and 19 percent last month.

President Joe Biden announced in September a mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure workers are vaccinated against Covid-19 or tested weekly for the virus. The mandate, which is currently still under review, is estimated to cover roughly two-thirds of the private sector workforce once it’s implemented. The Kaiser survey only asked whether people have quit over a vaccine requirement, not a vaccine requirement with a testing option.

More than one-third of unvaccinated workers said they would quit rather than comply with a vaccine or testing mandate, the Kaiser survey shows, a share that jumps to 72 percent if no testing option is offered. But because the nationwide mandate has yet to be officially implemented by the Labor Department, it remains to be seen what share of workers will quit when a broader swath of the U.S. workforce is covered.

[RockRaven]

1. It's a fucking survey. Remind me: what percent of MAGATs are brazen, unrepentant liars?

[hay rick]

3. LOL. Great minds think alike.

[hay rick]

2. Probably half that number or less.

The careful language from KFF:

Five percent of unvaccinated adults say they have left a job due to a vaccine mandate, according to a survey released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Do I think vaccine a non-negligible fraction of the population would lie when answering that question? Yes I do.

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4. They quit because they didn't want to work for a company that just fired them.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. That's actually a lot smaller than I had expected, and actually pretty good news.

I had assumed that most of the unvaccinated people were hard core antivaxxers, willing to lose their jobs over a bunch of nutty conspiracy theories. This actually dispels that assumption.

[sanatanadharma]

6. 95% of anti-vax and vac-hesitant will choose vaccination over quiting a job.

So, are we to understand that 95% of anti-vax and vac hesitant people would chose vaccination over quitting a job?

[Renew Deal]

7. I know people that have left significant roles in organizations we've all heard it over this

I think it’s insanity, but whatever.

[Skittles]

25. how do they expect to be hired elsewhere

surely vaccine status will come up again

[Vinca]

8. This is so stupid it boggles the mind. They're anti-vax, apparently not getting the concept of your

own body making a supply of antibodies to fight the virus, but if they get sick they'll race to a medical facility to have anti-bodies created in a test tube injected into them to save their lives. You know what might change this around? Medical bills. Publish the medical bills Covid patients receive from hospitals after going home. I imagine more than one anti-vaxer is headed to bankruptcy court. (Plan B - A PSA with Obama telling them whatever they do, do NOT get the vaccine. LOL.)

[elias7]

9. Fine. I don't want to work around selfish people who put others at risk

They can go to work somewhere else and put others at risk, or they can be unemployed, or they can hold out as long as they want until they need the money, or they can get sick with Covid and pay med bills on their own dime. I don’t care. Businesses will survive and be better for it.

[Midnight Writer]

10. "The departure of even one highly valued team member"? Departure as in dying from Covid?

If you leave your job because of a vax requirement, that is your choice.

If you leave your job because a co-worker refuses to get vaxxed and you get sick or even die, then you are a victim of that co-worker.

I don't see the controversy here. People should not be allowed to come into your workplace and infect you with a dangerous disease.

This reminds me of when indoor smoking was banned in workplaces. Smokers were outraged and weren't going to put up with it.

But they did.

[Johnny2X2X]

21. At my work

We are an aerospace engineering company that has 1200 people on site at out location. We execute large government contracts, so the mandate pulled no punches for us. We are also short workers/engineers already, retention is a major issue we're trying to address. I expect we will lose no more than 20 engineers, but that number will be felt. But good riddance, this says a lot about their character, do we really want selfish low character people working with us? I don't.

[JanMichael]

11. 100 staff. 70%vax. 30% no-vax. 1.5 quit. I don't care. Nt

[Johnny2X2X]

13. 80% of US adults are vaccinated

So it's 1% that quit their jobs.

[JanMichael]

16. 70 or 80% doesn't matter it's not that many. 1.5 or 1.

My point was a small number that we can deal with.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Exactly

The headline should have been 'Only 1% of US adults quit jobs over vaccine mandate!'

80% got vaccinated rather than quit, 19% are not quitting or are going to get vaccinated or they work for a small place with no vaccine mandate. Only 1 in 100 adults. But that 1 in 100 will get more press than the other 99 times 50.

[niyad]

19. 80% have at least one shot. The fully vaxxed number is much lower.

[Johnny2X2X]

20. It's still over 70%

You wouldn't know it by watching the news though. There's a constant narrative that the media is pushing that this is a 50-50 issue.

Anti Covid vaxxers are a minority that is shrinking in the US. It's less than 1 in 5 people now.

[bullwinkle428]

12. I always love when morons self-identify.

[lagomorph777]

14. Yup - clear out some deadwood.

[lark]

15. Most of these are pussy liars! They will talk big & be all blustery when questioned about this.

But when it comes to lose your job and be unable to get a comparable job because of no vaccination, almost all will fold and quit. Only the most twisted, hated filled idiots will risk their families economic wellbeing. Most will get vaccinated, especially those that also face big increases in insurance premiums or have to pay for their own testing. Those that don't have self identified as being a threat to us. Hope a bunch of them liv in FL because this state doesn't pay unemployment, the system fail (on purpose) and there's a huge class action lawsuit in the courts right now. Let those asses feel the weight of their right wing legislators perfidy for a change, it would be so fitting.

[Shellback Squid]

18. great! GTFO

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22. In unrelated news, surveys show collective IQ of American workforce rising.

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23. Vaccine mandates weeds out some of the most authoritarian and insubordinate officers, which is also

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[greenjar_01]

24. Small percentage of a small percentage

Ta-ta, Tuttle.