Hartford-based advocate and lawyer Tiana Hercules never saw herself as a politician. In a way, she still doesn’t even after outgoing Hartford City Council member Wildaliz Bermudez tapped her to take her place on the capital city’s governing body.
Travelers Cos., which employs thousands in downtown Hartford and is a global force in property-casualty insurance, told employees last week that it would indefinitely delay a broad-based return to the office set for Jan. 18, its eye on the spread of the new omicron variant of COVID-19.
Employers in and around Hartford are facing the most uncertainty since the pandemic began two years ago, little able to predict when the workplace will return to something that resembles normal.
The interstate highways that were jackhammered through Hartford six decades ago may have increased vehicular mobility, but they did so at great cost to the fabric of the city. But a new plan a mix of previous efforts, along with new ideas aims to remedy that.
The insurance giant Travelers Cos., which employs thousands in downtown Hartford, is delaying indefinitely its broad-based return to the office as concerns grow about the COVID-19 omicron variant and a recent spike in infection rates. Within the broader business community in greater Hartford, leaders said Tuesday they weren’ t surprised that Travelers had.