As the coronavirus slowly becomes endemic around the country, HR teams are weighing caution, health, safety, flexibility and their employees’ comfort levels in their plans to return to the workplace.
According to a Bloomberg Morning Consult poll in mid-January, most workers would rather quit than return to the office. The poll showed that 55 percent of remote workers would consider leaving their job if asked back before they felt safe, up from 45 percent a week earlier.
And given the hiring challenges so many companies are facing today, employers need to get return-to-work plans right. There are several viable approaches.