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6 MARCH 21, 2022 FEATURE BusinessWest
 The Great Return
Flexibility Is the Watchword as Workers Go Back to the Office
 Over the past year or so, most companies have set — and then pushed back — the date when workers would return to the offices they left when COVID-19 arrived in March 2020. Now, such a return seems more real. But what’s also real is a commitment to flexibility among area employers, who recognize not only that employees can work effectively from home, but that hybrid,
or fully remote, work schedules are becoming ever-more critical when it comes to attracting and retaining a workforce.
TBy George O’Brien
here was the Great Depression. And 75 years later, there was the Great Recession. We’re still struggling with what’s being called the Great
Resignation, and now ... we have what some are referring to as the Great Return.
This would be the return to the office of all those workers — tens of millions of them — who went home to work right around this time two years ago. Some have already returned, but many haven’t. There have been several scheduled returns over the past two years — indeed, most major corporations have moved back their return dates several times due to surges and new variants — but this time, by most all accounts, it seems real. Very real.
And it also seems complicated, or at
 Chris Viale, president and CEO of Cambridge Credit Counseling
 























































































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