Up till just a few weeks in the past, company leaders felt assured about what to anticipate this fall.
Workplaces would reopen after Labor Day. Enterprise journey would resume extra broadly. Lengthy-delayed work gatherings, conventions and off-site conferences would lastly happen.
The pandemic has, as soon as once more, upended a lot of these plans.
The swift, startling resurgence of Covid-19 circumstances and hospitalizations throughout the U.S. is inflicting company leaders to tear up playbooks for the following few months.
Not is a September return a goal for a lot of firms. Some employers, equivalent to banking big Wells Fargo & Co. and managed-care firm Centene Corp. , have in latest days shifted return-to-office dates to October. In the meantime, a variety of different outstanding firms now predict it will likely be 2022 till most staff return.