UBS CEO says staff who don't want Covid-19 vaccine can work from home

As Switzerland's largest bank, UBS has around 70,000 staff worldwide

Staff who don’t wish to receive a vaccine against the coronavirus can apply to work from home, UBS Group AG Chief Executive Officer Ralph Hamers said, signaling a flexible approach on a topic that’s disrupting banks’ effort to get workers back to their desks.
 

“We have 25,000 employees alone in the U.S. and thousands more in Singapore and Hong Kong, and every country has a different legal framework around what you can and can’t make mandatory” with respect to vaccines, Hamers said at the Swiss Economic Forum in Interlaken on Thursday. “The pandemic has delivered solutions to manage the risk