One in 4 employees nonetheless fears catching COVID-19 at work, though the proportion has continued to drop steadily within the newest Gallup ballot.
Twenty-six p.c of employed adults expressed concern, down from 33% in July and 36% a yr in the past. The speed has declined steadily from a excessive of 51% in July 2020, Gallup reported.
“Concern about publicity to COVID-19 at work continues to be extra pronounced amongst ladies, Democrats, training employees and healthcare employees, than it’s amongst their counterparts,” the pollster stated.
The newest ballot discovered that 38% of Democrats, 40% of training employees, 34% of healthcare employees and 33% of ladies are very or reasonably involved about catching COVID at work.
Simply 21% of males, 26% of political independents and 9% of Republicans expressed the identical worry.
A better share of hybrid employees (31%) expressed worry of catching COVID within the office than on-site workers (27%) and solely distant employees (21%). That “might partly clarify [hybrid workers’] reluctance to be within the workplace full time,” Gallup stated.
Gallup surveyed a random nationwide sampling of 1,174 adults with full-time or part-time jobs utilizing self-administered net polls Oct. 11-19. The margin of error was plus or minus 2 proportion factors on the 95% confidence stage.
