If you're getting a little antsy at home and anticipating a return to the office with any degree of fervor, you might want to check out this article from The Wall Street Journal, which includes a comment from a Cleveland-area worker.
Although the coronavirus is at full strength across America, vaccines are on the way that could change things fast — and lead employees and companies to start contemplating a return to the office.
From the piece:
Office occupancy in the top 10 metro areas stood at 24%, as of Dec. 2, up from 20% in July, according to data from Kastle Systems, which provides managed security services for offices. The rate varies widely: in Dallas, for example, occupancy is around 38%, while New York is 14%.
Returning workers are finding the experience to be a potent mix of excitement and strangeness — one involving new coping mechanisms, as well as unexpected joys and the occasional homesickness for the comforts of working from home. Many also say they relish the opportunity to be back, aware that as cases continue to rise, it may not last for long.
Even so, the Journal points out, some who have returned find they miss out of some of the comforts of home.
One New York lawyer says she was "surprised to find herself also craving extra snacks, like the banana bread she had taken up baking at home." Others miss the relative quiet of working at home, or lament that Zoom calls are still very much still a thing even though they're back.
And then there are pet issues (as in, cats and dogs).
Tasha Johnson, 31, a product manager outside Cleveland, tells the Journal that after she and her boyfriend went back to work, their dog started acting out, urinating on the carpet in an effort to get their attention.
Her answer: They bought the dog a ThunderShirt, a pressure jacket designed to make anxious dogs feel like they are being held, to wear while they were at work. She says it helped.
• Politico says it's looking like U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Cleveland, won't become the Secretary of Agriculture, but she's still in the mix for a position in the Biden administration. The website reports that President-elect Joe Biden "is leaning toward picking former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to return as head of the USDA, according to four people familiar with the discussions, turning to a longtime ally over several other more diverse candidates who have been jockeying for the role." Though the decision is not final and the dynamics are still in flux, Vilsack's emergence as the strong favorite for the job "indicates the transition is looking for a USDA leader with deep management and policy experience who is close with the Biden-world," Politico notes. The new front-runner status for Vilsack comes after weeks in which the public discussion largely centered on Fudge and former North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. It's not a sure thing, and the situation could change. Also, Politico says, "people familiar with the matter said Fudge would remain a contender for other Cabinet posts, including secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Biden team has emphasized that the Cabinet must be viewed as a whole and that the president-elect will have a diverse administration once the full slate of nominees and appointees is made public."
• The Washington Post runs a must-read, first-person piece by Bruce MacGillis, a resident of a COVID-impacted nursing home in Mentor. It grabs you right away: I'm happy they put us at the top of the (vaccine distribution) list, but I doubt it's going to make much of a difference in here. Can I get the vaccine today? Will I have immunity by tomorrow? 'Cause that's the kind of timeline we need in this nursing home. More than half of this place is covid-positive. I'm one of about 80 residents, and 30 got sick this week. MacGillis, 64, is in a wheelchair and notes, "I haven't been outside for months. I'm trapped, just like everybody else in this place. We're at the mercy of this virus. We sit in here and we wait. That's been the story of the last nine months. It's boredom and then dread." He's a realist, though, noting, "Total isolation might be my only chance. I probably have to make it at least another month to the vaccine, and I guess that's when we'll become a priority."
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