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Covid-19 at Two Years: What Have We Learned?

The pandemic introduced flexible scheduling that has given employees more control over their workday and, in turn, has led to happier employees, improved production, and increased retention. For many, Covid-related employment changes are here to stay.

By Mike Muskat, Michelle Mahony, Corey Devine, Mariah Berry & Nicole Su | March 24, 2022 at 03:54 PM

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It has been just over two years since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first domestic case of Covid-19. Seventy-eight million novel coronavirus cases and nearly a million deaths later, it would be an understatement to say that the pandemic up-ended our lives. Employers, of course, were not spared strain and disruption—at times over the past 24 months, it seemed that each day of the pandemic presented a new, thorny employment-related challenge for which there was no clear solution.

As Covid-19 turns two and we work through the next phase of the pandemic, what have we learned? We have identified \five lessons that may reshape the future of labor and employment law long after Covid-19 becomes a routine workplace risk to manage.

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