


Should a company mandate that an employee take the vaccine or be fired, then the company is liable for the outcomes. If they did, kiss 10 million goodbye minimum.Ĭome on, it's pointless for you to hand-wave when it's easy for you to estimate cost/benefits. Vaccine is mandated for anyone who choses to return to the office, while those who chose to remain remote can remain unvaccinated. Most of Facebook's employees are in the highly educated affluent demographic who have 80%+ uptake of the vaccine. Given the risk for the remaining 20% of Facebook's 60k employees, the expected number of people which this mandate effects and who have severe adverse reaction is 0.07. Given that the vaccine is only necessary for returning to the office, and people can chose not to, I'd give about 50% chance of a lawsuit succeeding. Given your $10mil estimate, the expected loss is only $0.3 million, i.e. the about the cost to the business of about 0.3 developer-years. (The rule of thumb is it costs twice a developer's wages to employee them). In other words your concern is completely financially insignificant.

Since you're keen on costs, you should consider another bigger cost. The vaccine seems to knock many people out for a day. If 60k employees get the shot, and half of them lose a day of work, that's 30k days of work lost - about 125 developer years.
#Warns staff growth decelerate mandates vaccine update#
