The result: Workers are continuing to experience the pandemic unevenly. The people who can most afford to take time off if they get sick, or choose to work from home, are the ones required to get the vaccine, while service-sector workers in food and retail who do not have the same privileges, may be put more at risk.
What they’re saying: “I think the feeling is that with office workers they can get away with it, whereas for some of these populations where you’re already at or near [a labor] shortage point, they feel like they don’t have enough power in the equation to demand it ,” Melissa Swift, U.S. Transformation Leader with consulting firm Mercer, tells Axios.
By the numbers: Demand for “knowledge workers” has increased 14% over the past year while demand for “blue collar” workers has increased by 24% with a 50% rise in demand for operations and logistics workers alone, says Becky Frankiewicz, president at ManpowerGroup North America.
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