Companies have been priming their cold brew kegs. In the last few days, several tech giants announced office reopening plans:
- Twitter is opening its offices (and resuming business travel *airlines cheer*) March 15.
- Google said employees can head back to some locations, including its Bay Area HQ, starting April 4.
- Apple told workers to return to the office one day per week beginning April 11, with that cadence ramping up to 2x three weeks later.
American Express, Meta, and Microsoft are among the companies that already introduced back-to-office plans last month.
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden said, “It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again. People working from home can feel safe to begin to return to the office.”
But hopes for full offices and bustling business districts are unrealistic. Economists estimate that three-fourths of the increase in telework during Covid will continue past the pandemic stage of the disease, and the number of fully remote workers will double compared to before the pandemic. Many employees who do return to offices won’t be required to work in person for the entire week: Twitter in particular has gone so far as to leave the decision of working in offices and for how many days entirely up to its employees.
Read the complete MorningBrew article By Jamie Wilde https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/covid-masks-mandates-loosen-offices-reopen
