As we begin to deal with yet another As we begin to deal with yet another "next normal" as the country reopens, employers, and the employee benefits they offer, will play a key role. (Photo: ALM Archives)

"Return to work" may as well be the most-used phrase of 2021. Some insurance companies have already brought employees back to the workplace. Others are still weighing the pros and cons, while some are considering going to a hybrid model (on-site and remote work).

But the world of 2021 is not the world of late 2019. "This is why trying to make the workplace what it used to be before the pandemic will not only be impractical and untenable for many reasons, it will be just as (if not more) disruptive than the initial work-from-home transition," Amy Quarton writes in BenefitsPRO, an ALM sister site of PropertyCasualty360.

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C.J. Marwitz

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