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A little more than a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) first discovered the COVID-19 virus, it feels almost quaint now to come back across articles from early in the pandemic when the expectation was that maybe employees would have to work from home for a few months. Fast forward a full year later and it is only now that companies are announcing, and beginning to implement, plans to bring employees back into their physical offices. As the pandemic defied people's hopes and predictions, and as timelines initially conceived of as weeks were extended to months, and from months to years, it became increasingly evident that not only would we be seeing long-term changes and effects in the business world, some of these changes would likely be permanent.

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