As the new variant spreads, businesses across California are rethinking timelines for bringing workers back into the office and scrambling to cope with lost productivity.
If you’ve been working from home for going on two years, and your spouse bought you some new pants because your company was planning to reopen its offices in January or February — well, you’ll probably have to stand up to show them off on Zoom.
Many of those plans were already looking iffy by September, when a rise in cases of the Delta variant caused executives to review their optimistic plans.than Delta. But it’s proving far more contagious. That’s causing companies to delay reopening plans, and in many cases, new dates aren’t being offered.Uber had planned to open all its offices Jan. 10 with expectations that many employees would return to work in person, but that plan is on indefinite delay.
Uber’s top competitor, Lyft, announced plans to delay its general reopening by a year, from February 2022 to sometime in 2023. Offices will be open to those who want to attend in person, but workers won’t be required to come in through 2022. That’s only partly due to Omicron, spokesperson Ashley Adams said. “The primary driver was to provide team members with the flexibility they’d been asking for, for a number of reasons, including many that aren’t related to the pandemic,” she said.
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