According to a new survey, few employers have all of their ducks in a row when it comes to plans for reopening their business in the coming months. Among the findings:
- 26% of organizations have a return-to-work strategy
- 56% are starting to work on their plans
- 52% plan to mandate social distancing at work
- 27% anticipate staggering return dates
- 83% will consider increasing remote work options
- 12% plan significant reconfigurations of physical workspaces to enable social distancing
- 64% plan on some type of medical testing with employees
- 36% admit that they are unprepared to reopen
At the time of the survey, 55% of companies hadn’t taken any employee-related cost-cutting measures such as layoffs or salary cuts.