incidence is increasing again
Many would like corona protection in the workplace
10/08/2022, 8:11 p.m
The third Corona winter is approaching and the incidence is already increasing again. In the event of another strong pandemic wave, many employees would like strict measures such as a mask requirement. Only a minority do not want to accept any measures.
Almost every second employee (48 percent) in Germany would like masks to be compulsory and regular corona tests at the workplace if there is another strong corona wave in autumn. Only a minority (14 percent) then no longer wants any restrictions at all, as the study “Working 2022” by the health insurance company pronova BKK shows. Another 4 percent stated that they only really felt safe in their home office. According to the information, around 1,200 employees aged 18 and over were representatively surveyed in September 2022 to collect the data.
According to the survey, most employees (64 percent) do not want to work mostly from home forever. However, a majority also see many advantages when working there, such as a better work-life balance (64 percent). Significantly more than half (57 percent) also find working in the home office more efficient and productive. However, many are literally reaching their limits: 54 percent of those surveyed stated that they would not be able to work from home regularly in the long run due to the premises.
More than a third have no chance of working from home
There are major differences in the regulations for working from home: For more than a third of those surveyed (35 percent), working from home is generally not possible, for example in nursing professions, in gastronomy or in retail. Almost a quarter (23 percent) stated that their employer did not offer a home office. Almost a third (30 percent) can work from home at any time without prior agreement, and just over one in ten (12 percent) can work a fixed number of days.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Saturday morning at 635.7. The day before, the value of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 577.5 (previous week: 497.0; previous month: 223.1). However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. Late registrations or transmission problems can also lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 122,265 new corona infections (previous week: 73,856) and 129 deaths (previous week: 116) to the RKI within one day. The RKI has counted 33,948,632 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.