The Work From Home experiment is going to last a lot longer than expected for thousands of Boston-area office workers.
When workers fled their offices in March as part of the pandemic shutdown, for many the general thinking was they would be back by early summer. Then, that shifted to the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Now, with the Financial District in Boston still largely a ghost town, an increasing number of companies are telling employees to continue working from home until January, at the earliest. MassMutual, Tufts Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Wayfair are among the major employers that have pushed back their return dates within the past few weeks. Just those four companies alone represent more than 15,000 workers in the state.
