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In Austin, COVID surge puts brakes on return-to-office plans

In Austin, COVID surge puts brakes on return-to-office plans
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Work from home? office? hybrid? Employers figuring it out

Like many workplaces around the world, the Monument Group closed its West Lake Hills office in mid-March last year. The future was suddenly uncertain as the global coronavirus pandemic struck. None of the 15 employees in the Texas-based communications firm had any way of knowing when they would return to their desks. Just before the pandemic, the company had purchased new office furniture and finished outfitting the 8,000-plus square feet of space it owns in Austin, fully expecting to beef up hiring. That staff expansion was put on hold. Scott Dunaway, a partner in the firm, emailed his employees. It was March 13, 2020.

Many Austin retailers will keep requiring masks inside stores

The CDC guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings such as buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters, but it helps clear the way for reopening workplaces, schools, and other venues even removing the need for social distancing for those who are fully vaccinated. CDC says fully vaccinated people don t need to wear masks “We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy,” said Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said at an earlier White House briefing. The CDC and the Biden administration have faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people those who are two weeks past their last required COVID-19 vaccine dose in part to highlight the benefits of getting the shot. The country’s aggressive vaccination campaign has paid off: U.S. virus cases are at their lowest rate since September, deaths are at their lowest point since last April and the coronavirus test positivity rate is at the

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