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CAREER

There Is No Going

Back to Normal:

How Jobs & the Workplace Will

Be Affected Permanently

By Terri Roeslmeier

here have been many articles published about how to prepare to return

to work, but how will jobs and the workplace culture be when you
return? Will everything go back to how it was or will it be different? In
the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted companies
Tand the way they operate. New policies and procedures and alternate
ways to communicate were required by workplaces in order to quickly adapt to
operating in a very different environment. As cases begin to decline, companies
are preparing to go back to work and are hoping things will eventually get back to
normal. The truth is that there is likely no chance of going back to normal. Even once
a vaccine is found, the pandemic will leave an everlasting mark on jobs and the ways

companies operate.

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