The news never sleeps, but for many of those at CNN who get the news out to the world, a return to their offices and bureaus may not come until next year because of the coronavirus, network boss Je…
, the ex-NBCUniversal CEO outlined for his employees that a minority of them could be back at their desks a little earlier., Zucker anticipates approximately 15% of CNN’s workforce to be back in the office on June 1. Again, as he said before, the exec emphasized that there’s an “early September timeline for another phase of returning employees” to CNN’s workplaces.
As of today, almost 101,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus and the nation still leads the world in confirmed cases with over 1.7 million reported.I wanted to follow up on the note you received yesterday from WarnerMedia about the current thinking on returning to the office. As I have said before, our operations will primarily, across both news and sports, continue to work remotely throughout the summer.
But the next real milestone we are aiming for is an end of summer, early September timeline for another phase of returning employees. As you have heard me say before, there are a lot of considerations when it comes to bringing people back to our offices, first and foremost your health and safety. When you consider physical distancing requirements, we simply cannot put the same number of people back into our workspaces that were there before the pandemic. So we need to make some tough decisions.
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