Employers Need to Learn to Live with COVID

There are many reasons why companies should continue to allow office workers to stay at home during a pandemic.

But as we approach the two-year anniversary of COVID-19′s arrival in Boston, these reasons are starting to feel like excuses. Enter inertia.

The professional world is divided into two camps: Those who long ago returned to regular in-person work, at least in some fashion (hospitals, universities, biotechs) and those who are still mostly hunkered down at home (financial services, tech firms, law offices).

There are hidden costs to keeping more than 100,000 employees at home waiting for the right moment to come back to our cubicles. Downtown Boston remains a ghost town, restaurants are struggling, and MBTA trains rattle half-empty.

Read the story at BostonGlobe.com