Should Companies Offer ‘Hazard Pay’ to Tempt Workers to Travel Again?
Photo Credit: Travelers walk to their respective gates at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on August 24, 2020. Flickr / Cory Hancock/International Monetary Fund
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Apple has reportedly offered employees a $500 daily cash bonus to fly to China. Despite a few ethical and liability questions, it's not as controversial as it sounds.
Many businesses can finally get back to traveling — technically speaking — as airlines patch their networks back together and country borders reopen with a mix of Covid tests and quarantines.
But there’s still a degree of nervousness associated with flying, and although some organizations are lifting their travel bans, not all employees will be comfortable as long as the pandemic lingers.
One way to sway the decision, however, could be a cash bonus.
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News website The Information has reported Apple is paying employees up to $500 a day to encourage U.S. employees to fly to China, on top of the usual daily expense for business travel, to return to work in some of the factories that make its computers and devices. Visits typically last at least six weeks and include a two-week stay in a quarantine hotel negotiated by Apple and the local Shanghai government, it added. Sk
