The Office Is Back. What If Covid Has Other Plans?

The surge in Covid-19 cases is giving some companies and workers pause over looming return-to-office plans, even as a number of employers push ahead and reopen workplaces.

Many corporate bosses have been moving toward a significant return to corporate campuses after Labor Day, but a few prominent employers, including Apple Inc., are already pushing back dates. Others say they are feeling pressure to delay from employees who are voicing fresh concern about the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant and swaths of unvaccinated people.