COVID Surge Keeps Downtown Kansas City Workers Away

The pandemic persists in Kansas City and it seems like the changes to the modern day middle-class workspace might be permanent. 

On the plus side, the means middle-class people with parents rich enough to pay for a good college will get paid for sending witty e-mails at their b.s. jobs. 

Downside . . . Expect more white collar layoffs as these precious gigs become increasingly rare.

Here's a bright side quote . . .

“We really felt like the safest option we had was to delay the return,” an executive said, citing low vaccination rates, high infection rates and the company's success with remote work.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link and sadly behind the paywall . . .

H&R Block delays its return to the office - Kansas City Business Journal

The company, with 2,000 workers in Downtown, won't bring them back in early September as planned and hasn't set a definitive return date. "We really felt like the safest option we had was to delay the return," an executive said, citing low vaccination rates, high infection rates and the company's success with remote work.