Fatmagul Altindag, an internal audit manager in Istanbul, has been back to working in her office full time since July 2021. COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in Turkey, so Altindag’s company and many others were at one time requiring vaccination or proof of a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test within the last 48 hours before employees could go to work in person.
“In our company, you can’t work from home. And if you don’t get vaccinated, you can only come to the office with PCR tests, which you need to have twice a week, and you have to pay for it on your own,” Altindag said.
