Returning To The Office; What Do We Really Need To Worry About?
Remember after a major earthquake we stock up on bottled water, battery-operated radios, freeze-dried food, and other necessities if we were shut off from civilization until the highways and bridges were fixed? Now we have major Covid-19 sanitization, consultants advising office building owners to invest in self-opening doors, touchless elevator controls, and temperature checking stations in the lobby capable of scanning twenty entrants at a time. Interior office spaces are being transformed into socially-distant, safe work spaces with plexi-glass barriers, one way arrows on the floor, and low-capacity limit signs on the break and conference rooms. If by this summer almost all of us will have been vaccinated how long will these measures still need to be in place? Some states have been mask-less for months, while in others this is still a requirement. Will new variants threaten our recovery? Will the anti-Covid pill they are currently working on soon be a reality? How does corporate America, or even the local office space user, make decisions with so many unknown variables?
