In view of the high number of corona cases, employees are still concerned about infection at work.
In February, 31 percent of employees stated in a survey that they were concerned about this, as the DGB's Hans Böckler Foundation announced on Tuesday.
The value is thus almost unchanged compared to the previous months and significantly higher than in October 2021, when this only applied to 21 percent.
Employees who have direct contact with many other people in their job are particularly concerned.
In view of the high incidences in schools and day-care centers, this includes employees in the social, education and training sectors, of whom two-thirds (67 percent) recently had concerns about infection.
An above-average number of those surveyed also stated this in the area of health and care (52 percent) and the sales professions (46 percent).
The data is based on a survey by the portal Lohnspiegel.de, in which, according to the information, almost 98,000 employees have taken part since the beginning of the pandemic.
Lohnspiegel.de is scientifically supervised by the Economic and Social Science Institute (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation.
"With the elimination of the home office obligation on March 20, the risk of infection also increases for employees who have previously worked well protected in their home office," warned WSI expert Elke Ahlers.
Many employers introduced flexible rules for mobile working during the pandemic and wanted to keep them permanently.
Nevertheless, it is becoming apparent that the office floors will be full again in the coming months.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach recently expressed concern about the increasing number of new corona infections.
He defended "moderate" easing steps by the federal and state governments.
But the citizens would become more carefree.