Return to work: Your window of opportunity to help employees recover

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Employees who have been working remotely for the past year may begin returning to the office soon as COVID-19 restrictions begin to loosen across the country. This shift in the work environment is an ideal time for employers to begin thinking about how they want to work with employees to help them recover financially and emotionally from the disruptions and stress of the pandemic.

The pandemic affected employees in dramatically different ways, with half of the large employer workforce expressing a change in their financial situation in only one year — just as many improving as deteriorating — according to Willis Towers Watson’s 2020 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey (GBAS).