COVID-19: opinion on responsibility of business to the community 2020

According to a survey in March 2020, respondents in Germany were the least likely to think that businesses have a responsibility to ensure their employees are protected from the COVID-19 virus in the workplace, and that the virus does not spread into the community, with 65 percent of German respondents affirming this responsibility. The country surveyed with the highest expectation of corporate responsibility was South Korea, where 87 percent of respondents believed businesses to have this responsibility.

Share of adults worldwide who agree business has a responsibility to ensure workers and the community are protected from COVID-19 in March 2020, by country

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Release date

March 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

March 6 to 10, 2020

Number of respondents

10,000 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

Original question: "Please indicate your level of agreement with the statements below using a nine-point scale where one means strongly disagree and nine means strongly agree: businesses have a responsibility to ensure their employees are protected from the virus in the workplace and that their employees do not spread the virus into the community".
Top four responses of nine-point scale are counted as agree by the source.
1,000 respondents per country

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