There s a lot of challenges with mandating employees to do anything, Rothbard said Thursday on CNBC s Squawk Box. Any boss will tell you, it s a lot more about persuasion than telling.
The issue of whether to require workers to get vaccines in order to return to the office has come into focus recently as about 3 million people in the U.S. per day are getting shots. The latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show nearly a quarter of the American adult population is fully vaccinated. Trying really to incentivize people to get vaccinated, I think, is going to be a much more popular route than mandates, said Rothbard, a management professor whose research partly focuses on work motivation and engagement.