More than two-thirds of business leaders believe the COVID-19 pandemic will become endemic this year according to a survey released Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
The professional services firm conducted an online survey of 678 C-suite executives, which included CEOs, CFOs, COOs, tax and audit executives, and corporate board members. Two-thirds of those surveyed were from Fortune 2000 corporations and 69 percent said they believe this is the year the pandemic will wane.
About a third require vaccinations for on-site work and will continue to do so. Almost a quarter require it now, but will reconsider in the future. And 16 percent have dropped the vaccine requirement in response to labour shortages. Companies are also divided on automatic contact tracing: 38 percent have implemented it (with half of them likely to revisit it) while 29 percent have no plans to require it.
