Open floor plans are more conducive to contagion than productivity, and conversations about whose work is essential have been elevated to cultural discourse. As in-house counsel prepare to flip the calendar to 2021 they are flipping their mindset as well: from emergency response to the longer-term realities of a recession in a pandemic along with a flood of new federal, state, and local requirements to comply with.
Crisis responses to the onset of Covid-19 simultaneously, if not intentionally, sidelined many structural workers-rights safeguards and changed the calculus of corporate risk assessment. Many issues that have material impacts on compliance, budgets, ...