The pandemic necessity of doing your job away from the workplace is ending as restrictions and mandates ease and employers refocus on getting people back to in-person work.

While employers can wind down temporary measures, they should also consider how the work environment has changed since COVID-19 took hold early in 2020, that flexible arrangements have proved to be possible, and how employees may feel about going back to in-person work, experts in Canada say. 

“Employees have proven — at least in their own minds — that they are as productive, if not more productive, working from home,” said Janet Candido, a Toronto-based human resources (HR) consultant.

“So, that’s where the pushback