The uncertainty may cause companies to think about their return-to-the-office plans. If this strain spreads, like it's doing in other countries, workers would protest over being required to commute back to work. Corporations would be open to liabilities for pushing people to endanger themselves.
told their people to return to their offices. If there is a threat of a resurgence, how could the banks stick with their plans? New York City was the epicenter of Covid-19 during the early dark days of the outbreak—with a heartbreaking amount of cases and casualties. It doesn't seem likely that workers will commute back to the City if there is a renewed health threat.
It's been proven that employees were highly productive working from home. Studies show that remote workers put in longer hours well into the night and weekends. The amazing rise in the stock prices is a great indicator of how well companies, like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, fared during the outbreak when their workers were at home.
It's evidently clear that a large majority of people don’t want to return to the office full time. Employers are coalescing around the hybrid model with two or three days in the office and the rest remote. The initial two or three days, people say, are an inducement to get them acclimated to going back to the office on a limited basis but will change over time. There is an underlying concern that businesses will push for four days or a full week in the near future.
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