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COVID Resurgence Pushes Back Corporations’ Timelines for Office Return
The resurgent coronavirus and a return of mask recommendations are hampering corporate America’s plans to get back to normalcy, Bloomberg News reported. The renewed rise in COVID-19 cases comes just as it seemed vaccine shots would allow workers to return to offices and resume pre-pandemic norms.
Among other large employers, Google said it would push back its official office return to mid-October and require vaccines, while Lyft postponed its return date to February. Twitter shut its recently reopened workplaces. Citigroup requires masks at the office, and Walt Disney Co. is again mandating them at its parks.
Even for employees who’ve been vaccinated, the highly transmissible delta variant is raising concerns of breakthrough infections, spread to unvaccinated children and broader disruptions to economic activity.
“It feels like it’s getting a little crazy again,” said Katrina Burch, an assistant professor in the department of psychological sciences at Western Kentucky University, told Bloomberg.
- ◦People
