Delta Variant Rattles Plans for Getting Lawyers Back in Offices

Return-to-office plans carefully crafted by companies and law firms face new uncertainty from changing federal Covid-19 guidelines and the rapidly spreading Delta variant.

The Centers for Disease Control partially reversed its mask recommendations for fully vaccinated people Tuesday and now suggests that people who are fully vaccinated should wear masks indoors in Covid hotspots. The guidelines follow a surge in Covid cases caused by the Delta variant in as many as two-thirds of all U.S. counties.

“It’s similar to how it was during the height of Covid-19 when we felt like every week things were changing,” said Mary Kathryn Curry, ...