International Business Machines Corp. said all of its US-based employees must be vaccinated or placed on unpaid suspension by December 8.
Armonk, the New York-based company, told workers that because it is a government contractor, federal contractors are required to comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.
IBM said the new mandate would apply to all US employees, regardless of where they work or how often they visit the company’s office and would offer “limited” medical or religious exemptions. The decision was prompted by “the continued spread of COVID-19, local clinical conditions around IBM sites, and the reality that vaccines are readily available nationwide,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “As we have said during the pandemic, IBM’s health and safety practices are driven by science.”
CNBC had earlier reported on the mandate.
In June, IBM told US employees to return to the office by September, but was forced to close New York City locations in August amid rising Covid-19 cases.
This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed.
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