Business Travel Trepidation Escalates

For the first time since Covid-19 vaccines became widely available in the U.S. this year, both employees' willingness to travel, as measured by worker surveys, and sales by corporate travel agencies have begun to slip amid rising virus case counts. And while conditioning attendance on vaccine mandates could have a notable effect on employees' willingness to meet in person, there appears to be about a quarter of the workforce that, for now, just isn't open to the prospect of travel.