Coronavirus | 1 in 3 staff want test or vaccine before work return

Earlier this month, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged workers who have not yet fully returned to their normal working environments to do so if possible.

“I want people to go back to work as carefully as possible. It’s very important that people should be going back to work if they can now,” said Johnson in a televised address to the nation – as reported by Metro.

However, whilst the UK Government’s new guidance urges professionals to ‘live their lives more normally’, new research released today by Canada Life found that this sentiment is not echoed by workers.

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In fact, the new research found that whilst four in ten are feeling ‘positive’ about getting back into the office, 28% have serious concerns about any form of physical return – a number that jumps to 36% among women.