Apple asked all of its US employees to voluntarily share their vaccination status. According to Bloomberg, the company recently sent a memo requesting workers, which they are currently working on an office or not, to share this information before September 17th. Apple according to the testimonials the intention to use the data collected to inform its response in progress Covid-19.
Bloomberg reports that the company told employees that it would retain their “confidential and secure” vaccine status by aggregating information but said it could change in the future. “Your vaccination status may be used identifably, as well as other information about your general work environment, such as your construction site, if we determine or, if necessary, this information is necessary. To ensure a safe and safe work environment, “apple said in the memo, according to the exit. It is not clear what the impact if an employee will be confronted if they do not provide their status of vaccination by the date limit.
We contacted the company to comment.
Unlike Google, Apple does not currently require that employees are vaccinated before you can come tothe office. Nevertheless, the company started to push its workers in this direction stronger. For example, he recently started a campaign encouraging workers to shoot.
The Company’s request, and admission that employees to share information with it can be used identifiablely, as Apple faces are increasingly an examination on how it manages the privacy of its workers . A recent report of the detailed penis some of the society’s policies on this forehead. For example, such a rule prohibits employees from wiping their work mechanisms before returning them to the company. This last policy can still fuel these concerns.
