Workers grapple with new stresses as they return to office


  • TECH
  • Monday, 09 May 2022

The conference and work space at Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition in Itasca, Illinois. Yoon has been working mostly in person since the pandemic, including at her current job that she started last fall. But moving in last year with her older parents, both in their early 60s, has led to some heightened level of anxiety because she's worried about passing on the virus to them. — Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition via AP

NEW YORK: Last summer, Julio Carmona started the process of weaning himself off a fully remote work schedule by showing up to the office once a week.

The new hybrid schedule at his job at a state agency in Stratford, Connecticut, still enabled him to spend time cooking dinner for his family and taking his teenage daughter to basketball.

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