- December 18, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The latest developments around Covid could very well kill the return-to-office date as we know it, business and health experts say.
“These RTO dates are now history,” Nick Bloom, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor who researches remote work, tells CNBC Make It. “Everything is completely off.”
Covid-19 caseloads are rising again throughout the country. Meanwhile, research about the new omicron variant indicates it’s highly contagious and a cause for concern. Health experts warn that rising caseloads, coupled with holiday travel plans, will likely lead to a surge in cases in the coming weeks that will overwhelm hospital systems.
Given how fast the state of the virus is changing, Bloom says any workplace reopening update “less than a week old is outdated. The whole concept of return-to-office dates doesn’t make much sense.”
He says many firms are now pulling out of the idea of setting a new return-to-office date altogether, as Google did when it…
