UK employees: 'Give us vaccine or antibody test before return to work'

Canada Life research

Adam Saville
clock • 3 min read

More than a third of British workers want Covid-19 vaccine or antibody test before returning to the workplace, study shows

A survey of 2,000 UK adults - just over 624 working from home during lockdown - has shown that 35% would prefer to be tested for antibodies or immunised for coronavirus before they come back to a physical working environment. The research by Canada Life, carried out early July, also found that while four in 10 are feeling positive about returning to the office, 28% are concerned about it - increasing to 36% for women. Almost a fifth (17%), meanwhile, do not expect working practices to return to normal for several years - or won't ever go back to the way it was before Covid-19 - despit...

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