If an all remote company wants to impose a vaccine mandate I suppose they can...., but I mean it seems like a huge waste of time. Hiring in engineering is already so hard right now no need to make it harder.

Litmus test for determining common sense. Or if you get cynical, "cultural fit".

Are you saying if someone isn't vaccinated for Covid 19 they can't be a good team member and contributor at a high level? Because that sounds really really bad.. and dangerous.

Could read it either way. If a remote company has stupid policies on full display, imagine the unseen policies.

I assumed he meant it the other way around, as showing management lacks common sense by imposing the mandate under those conditions.

But I guess it could go either way, depending on one's preconceptions.

People are saying it. And it is really bad and dangerous

Large companies with older workers will eventually have to mandate, they can’t afford the long covid costs/insurance. They can’t fire people for smoking or obesity, but this will give them an out.

More youthful companies will punt but check back in when Covid-35 or -40 hits.

I wonder if Health Insurance providers will make it mandatory or have different rates based on vax.

Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers can't legally set premiums based on vaccination status. However, employers are generally allowed to cut their contributions to employee insurance premiums on that basis.

Do you have a source for that? It's interesting.

Informative!

I'd like to see insurers say "due to COVID our costs have gone up but you can get a discount if you're vaxxed." Increasing just for unvaxxed is probably hard but offering an incentive may work.

Where I work we have a mandate and it's like 98% compliance. A few have opted to go 100% remote so they can avoid the vaccine but practically nobody quit over this.

Wonder if that would be legal under ACA and other existing laws regulating health insurance. You can do it for tobacco use but can't do it for a whole lot else. They'd probably need Congressional approval and if that were possible, Congress always would have passed a mandate law instead of the Executive Branch trying to make their own law.