Thursday, April 1, 2021
Last week, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Marin Counties joined several other northern California counties in the less restrictive Orange Tier under California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy Tier System. Effective March 31, 2021, several other counties, including Alameda, Santa Cruz and the Southern California counties of Los Angeles and Orange, joined them. With this move, some non-essential indoor businesses in these counties, including office-based workspaces, are now permitted to re-open, subject to necessary modifications (and subject to approval by local county public health departments). It has been over one year since offices were forced to close under state and local stay at home orders in these areas, and although much of Southern California remains in the Red Tier, this move is a positive sign that life may soon return to pre-pandemic normal in California. But as businesses get ready to bring employees back to work, there are many cons