People are finally returning to the office — and their desks feel like time capsules from March 2020. Post-it notes from projects of yore. Old snacks. Mugs once filled with liquids that all but evaporated. Stepping into our cubicles is a blast from the past.
In this article, Steve Annear Globe Staff writes that after 16 long months of living through a pandemic, some workers are finally starting to trickle back into the office after initially believing they’d be gone only a few short weeks. But as they take stock of their desks and bid farewell to their work-from-home routines, employees are being thrown back into another world — one that almost feels like a different lifetime.