Nearly 3 out of 4 Indian employees (72%) currently working from home due to COVID-19 do not want to risk returning to their workplace due to concerns around commuting safely to work, according to a global survey by Kronos, a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions.
The survey points that 56% of Indian employees are concerned about overall workplace sanitation and cleanliness, whereas 42% consider using shared workspaces such as conference rooms a bigger challenge that can lead to the contagion spreading.
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“Earning the trust of employees that their health and safety is in good hands will be critical for organisations as the workforce starts getting back to the workplace. Employees need to feel that the right systems and processes are in place,” said Sumeet Doshi, country manager, India, Kronos.
About 55% of Indian employees believe that their employer has created a physically safe and healthy workplace environment.
The survey, conducted by Workplace Intelligence on behalf of Kronos among nearly 4,000 employed adults across Australia and New Zealand, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Netherlands, the UK and the US, helps debunk a global misconception around COVID-19 contact tracing that suggests employee privacy concerns
outweigh safety concerns. Majority of employees surveyed globally (86%) are comfortable to varying degrees with employer-led contact tracing, which, combined with education and transparent communication, may be the key to setting a risk-adverse workforce at ease.
The survey also highlights that Indian workers (37%) doubt the accuracy with which employee or guest temperatures are taken at workplaces.
From a person-to-person contact perspective, nearly half of Indian employees (49%) are concerned about encountering an asymptomatic coworker or visitor, with 58% having concerns with their company’s ability to react quickly to presumed or confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the workplace.
“Employees have demonstrated that they do have safety concerns in the workplace, but generally trust their employer to take care of them,” said Gregg Gordon, vice president, industry, Kronos.
Globally, 3 in 4 employees (75%) say they trust their employer to create a physically safe and healthy work environment. In India, though, that is slightly lower, as just more than half of employees (55%) strongly agree with that sentiment.
