I know in the case of my own employer (tech firm), our starting point now is that no-one needs to be in the office, ever. We're shutting most offices world wide, moving to home working and will retain some office space for things like client meetings, workshops etc but that is it. The joy of a multi-national means we're well used to working with teams around the world and people we never meet in real life and it works fine. Basically staff working from home have been told to order what they need, (desk, screens, chairs etc) from a prescribed list and set themselves up properly.
We're also doing a bit of a culling exercise and exiting people who clearly took the mickey during lockdown. It really did expose some lazy people who were adding no benefit to the organisation or the culture so bye bye to them.
It does require a whole raft of new HR policies and those are still being worked through. I also expect there will be a litany of employment tribunal etc cases which will occur. A simple one, an employer insists staff must be vaccinated, an employee takes a case claiming "discrimination" and wins it and then his colleagues take a case over having to work with someone who is potentially endangering their lives. Some fun times ahead I see for employment solicitors.
We're also doing a bit of a culling exercise and exiting people who clearly took the mickey during lockdown. It really did expose some lazy people who were adding no benefit to the organisation or the culture so bye bye to them.
It does require a whole raft of new HR policies and those are still being worked through. I also expect there will be a litany of employment tribunal etc cases which will occur. A simple one, an employer insists staff must be vaccinated, an employee takes a case claiming "discrimination" and wins it and then his colleagues take a case over having to work with someone who is potentially endangering their lives. Some fun times ahead I see for employment solicitors.