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Today, the delta variant makes up 83% of all new COVID-19 cases.Here are some facts that are related to each other: New COVID-19 cases have tripled in the last month. While Morgan Stanley has said it expects employees to return to the office after Labor Day. JPMorgan and Goldman have already told employees to begin to return to the office after about a year of at-home working during the worst of the pandemic. People at banks such as JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs say that so far, they’ve made no changes to their re-opening plans. Wednesday and Fridays will be optionally remote for some staff members.įox Business says other big companies are considering whether they should delay a return to the office as well but, officially, their plans are to return as planned. When Apple employees are eventually required to return, they are expected to work from the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. In an email to employees about the return delay, Apple cited Covid-19 rather than employee concerns about limited remote options. Apple’s decision comes as its own employees criticized the September deadline as too early.

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Apple had dropped its internal mask mandate in June.Ĭorporations across the globe are grappling with how to adjust to shifting work demands in the post-Covid era. In regions where local authorities have reinstated mask mandates, retail workers must comply, the company told employees. (Apple) Store workers, vaccinated or not, are being urged to start wearing masks again, other people familiar with the matter said. I make note of this because it was Apple that was among the first big companies to tell employees to stay home in the early days of the pandemic last year. Apple planned to open its California offices in September. Bloomberg reports that Apple is delaying its return to the office by at least a month as new COVID-19 cases rise worldwide. Let’s watch this one to see if it becomes a trend. 23 percent delayed education or career plans.Īpple delays its return to the office.27 percent had been unable to pay for basic necessities like food or rent.35 percent used up all or most of their savings.People directly affected by the pandemic reported having medical bill and debt problems at higher rates than those not directly affected.Īmong respondents with medical bill and debt problems

The headline is more than a third of insured adults and half of uninsured adults struggled to pay medical bills during the pandemic. Insurance companies could afford to cover the costs because they were spending so much less on other treatments and hospitalizations that were delayed by the pandemic.īut health policy experts say it is only a matter of time before patients begin paying more COVID-19 medical costs out of their own pockets.Ī new study by the Commonwealth Fund asked 5,450 working-age adults between March and June 2021 about how the pandemic affected their health insurance coverage and medical debt. In March 2020, then-President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which required health insurance companies to cover COVID-19 testing and vaccinations at no cost to members and covered all COVID-19 treatment costs for Medicare patients.

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