Making a Return to the Office Easy in 3 Steps

As the response to the pandemic improves, many companies have begun the decision-making on implementing a partial, perhaps full return to the office in a post-pandemic scenario. As a result, there typically tend to be two types of employee groups: those eager to return and those who aren’t. However, it’s also necessary to understand the possibility that some of the people who want to return to a shared workspace feel uncomfortable about doing so. Even as the danger of the crisis has passed, the health concerns or the family or economic situations that have cascaded as a result don’t, at least not immediately. It doesn’t mean they won’t resume working, or meeting with their teams face-to-face, but it does mean that there would be a phase during which they may exhibit variability in their energy, and attention. We all do have our good and bad days. But in a business context, a prolonged period of bad days can be difficult to handle. There are four things that managers can to assist their...