Some of the biggest employers in Canada are putting plans to slowly bring some workers back into the office on pause because of Omicron — and that’s having devastating consequences on the businesses that rely on them.
Major financial conglomerates including the big banks and insurers were all in the process of slowly returning some staff to offices in a limited capacity. But they’ve hit the brakes on those plans given the rapid spread of the latest COVID-19 variant.
Manulife was planning to restart office work on Jan. 24, but told employees in a memo this week that it is shelving those plans. Rival Sun
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