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Vaccines Herald Return to Offices, But Workers Don’t Want to Go

  • Remote work may add 2.4% to productivity, academic paper finds
  • Many Americans will continue to avoid subways and restaurants
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As employers eagerly await the Covid-19 vaccines that promise to return staff to offices after months of working from home, new reports indicate getting them back won’t be easy.

More than half of U.S. employees currently working from home say they’d like to keep their remote arrangements beyond the pandemic, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday.