The company’s numbers indicate that around 1.44 percent of employees have contracted the virus, while the 7,277,352 cases confirmed in the U.S. by Johns Hopkins University represents about 2.2 percent of the country’s overall population.
The company described their analysis as “conservative” because it included both presumed cases and those who definitively tested positive, while noting that employees are tested and regularly screened for symptoms “regardless of whether they are showing symptoms,” unlike the general public.
The post also urged other major companies to follow suit and share testing information in order to “benchmark our progress and share best practices across businesses and industries.”
“We hope sharing this data and our learnings will encourage others to follow, and will prove useful as states make decisions about reopening public facilities and employers consider whether and how to bring people back to work,” the company wrote.
