As Offices Reopen, Cleaning A Building Moves From 'Hygiene Theater' To A New Reality

Just a year ago, many of our offices — the ones many companies are clamoring to reopen — were filled not with employees but cleaners clad in hazmat suits that looked straight out of a medical thriller. In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, concerned property owners, following the best advice available at the time, spent considerable sums scrubbing their offices down in what, it appears a year later, might have been a misdirected effort.