American employees shun their desks

From our correspondent in Washington

The pandemic has had a good back. Now that it is overcome, millions of Americans, delighted with the telework, are reluctant to resume their habits of 2019 and find their office and their colleagues. The date of “Labor Day”, American Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday in September, marked in theory for many companies the obligation to return to “normal” office life, at least a few days a week. .

Judging by congestion on the highways of major cities, and by the use of suburban trains and subways since Tuesday, the increasingly insistent message from the employers is gradually beginning to be heard. “As long as the Covid remains manageable, we need everyone to come back to our offices on a regular basis… We need our seniors to be there so that our juniors are motivated“, summarized the end of August memo from the management of the investment bank Jefferies to all its…