It’s amazing to see how most companies are eager to post the covid vaccination drive photos. What happens behind the scene is immaterial. Photos of employees in the “I’m vaccinated” organization-sponsored selfie booth seems to be KRA of the HR department this quarter.
The reality of the vaccination drives organize is that:
- Many companies are getting their employees vaccinated by asking them to pay for it.
- Some of them are ready to reimburse but only a part of it.
- During the vaccine drives at the organization, the vaccination cost is higher than what you are charged directly approaching the hospital.
- Some companies are only offering the vaccination and reimbursement only for the employee and not for his family members.
Companies have not provided due support to the covid infected employees and are now trying to garner brownie points by doing a vaccination drive and advertising about it.
If the employees’ health is of paramount concern, why not support them during their families’ health issues during this difficult time? Why shy away from providing medical, financial aid, or at least additional leaves for those employees who contracted the disease? Why the employees have to pay for vaccination out of their own pockets, why partial reimbursements, why not include the entire family rather than the employee alone. There are hundreds of such questions that beg the answers if the organization’s intent is really to help.
But if the intent is to post pics of “I got vaccinated” then that’s fine too but don’t advertise it as an activity undertaken out of health concerns for the employees. Even societies, small business owners, construction sites, and many others are doing this for their employees without advertising it or taking credit for it.