In March 2020, many employees across the United States were faced with the prospect of a temporary shift to remote work. For many of those workers, the expectation was that their office would remain closed and they would work from home for a couple of weeks, maybe a month at the most.
But now, close to a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies have no immediate plans to bring staff back to work. With COVID-19 numbers surging and no widely available vaccine expected until later this year, companies are unable to return to the way things were in January and February 2020.