Employees could be heading back to the office sooner than they think
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The days of working from home may numbered. While some companies, including JPMorgan Chase, Salesforce and PricewaterhouseCoopers, are dumping office space, others are ramping up their return-to-work plans. Just this week, Google , one of the first major U.S. companies to send employees home last year because of the coronavirus, told staffers it is accelerating plans to get back in the office ahead of the Sept. 1 return deadline. In a memo to Bloomberg employees first reported by Business Insider, Michael Bloomberg said he expects workers to return to the office as soon as they are vaccinated.

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Roughly 8 in 10 employers said immunizations will pave the way to a new normal in terms of returning to the workplace, according to another poll of nearly 500 employers by Willis Towers Watson, a benefits consulting firm. "A common strategy for employers is to make vaccines an easy choice for employees by first helping convince them to get the vaccine and then making it easy for them to do so," said Jeff Levin-Scherz, Willis Towers Watson's population health leader. About a quarter of employers are going a step further by obtaining vaccines to administer to their employees directly or facilitating access to vaccines through a third party — and another 55% are planning or considering doing this, Willis Towers Watson found.

You'll see more employers providing access to the vaccines. Peter Cappelli Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School