Europe is now suffering from a new wave of Covid-19 and the infection rates are higher in many countries than ever before.
Consequently, many companies and governmental organizations have introduced requirements and policies for employees to be vaccinated and / or tested to enter the office, production hall, warehouse, shop, or other critical meeting points. The reasoning is to protect employees and customers and ultimately also the business.
For many enterprises and corporations, it is business critical to keep the production running. Think of an of online grocery business, for example. They have revenue contributions of millions of euros daily. The core of their business is packing the goods their customers order before they are sent out of their central warehouses.
Worst-case scenario: an employee in the warehouses is infected with Corona and passes it on to their colleagues. A major outbreak can force the company's production completely to its knees. Thus, it is business critical to avoid this scenario at any cost.
Many business leaders therefore face a dilemma. Should you check your employees for a valid Coronapass when they show up at work? In the Nordics, we generally have great trust in each other. And that is good. However, a hypothesis is that in most cases, employees are not checked for a valid Coronapass. From a business point of view, it is a risk. The above horror scenario is not desirable for any business leader.
In Germany, T-Systems, together with Deutsche Telekom and SAP, developed the German version of the Corona Warning App. A solution that has more than 37 million users. T-Systems has now used that experience to develop a new solution that easily and quickly can be integrated into a company's existing access, booking and check-in processes to enter the workplace. The solution checks the validity of employees' or customers' vaccination or test certificates in the background and documents the control automatically.
Therefore, business leaders should no longer choose between mutual trust or resource-heavy control. Digital solutions can solve the management dilemma and remove the delicate issue of spending considerable resources on checking employees for a valid Corona certificate while minimizing business risk. The future is digital.
You can read more about T-Systems' solution here