These companies’ workers may never go back to the office

New York CNN — As the United States prepares for another wave of the coronavirus, some companies are making plans to keep their employees remote for the forseeable future. Dropbox The tech company’s nearly 3,000 employees will continue to work remotely the majority of the time, but will occasionally go to a revamped offices, which will be called “Dropbox Studios,” for collaborative and team-building work. He pitched the idea in an effort to satisfy employee preferences and tocreate “more broad-based economic prosperity.” Okta Software company Okta, which provides worker-login software to nearly 9,000 organizations including JetBlue, Nordstrom and Slack, expects as much as 85% of its workforce to work remotely under the new policy. According to Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, “Office centricity is over.” Slack Slack, which provides communications platformsthat make working remotely possible for hundreds of workplaces, has opened roles that can be filled by remote candidates, and most Slack employees have the option to workremotely on a permanent basis. Square Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s other company, Square, plans to allow staff members to work from home even afterthe pandemic ends.