Productivity

What Managers Are Telling Workers About Returning to the Office

The only consensus right now is that there isn’t one.

Illustration: Derek Abella for Bloomberg Businessweek

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Managers are making tentative plans to reopen offices, leading to a bunch of questions from workers who’ve spent more than a year settling into (and in some cases learning to love) their work-from-home routines. Here are the most common ones bosses are facing, and how they’re looking at them.

Mid-May to October is the range most companies are giving. But one lesson from the past year is that plans need to evolve with the virus.