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TVA delaying plans to return workers to offices as coronavirus pandemic worsens
Local Regional News
TVA delaying plans to return workers to offices as coronavirus pandemic worsens
August 5, 2021 | by Dave Flessner | Copyright © 2021
The Tennessee Valley Authority is delaying its plans to bring back most of its staff to its offices until January due to ongoing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and its delta variant and the success the utility is finding with remote work by its employees. ... A majority of the TVA's 10,000-employee staff, who have been working remotely from home for nearly 17 months, will continue to telework for another five months or more before returning to their old work sites.
"Given the growth in the delta variant and the guidance coming from the [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the White House, we went ahead and made this decision that we think makes a lot of sense," TVA President Jeff Lyash said in an interview Thursday. "It will help give our workers more certainty as they plan their lives for the next six months and we continue to do our work without much, if any, loss in productivity. Our workforce has been very effective in adapting to this telework and the flexibility that comes with it, so we have been able to build our processes and procedures around this type of work environment."
TVA joins other major U.S. corporations, including Amazon and Google, that have announced plans in the past week to push back their schedules for bringing back their corporate staff to offices because of renewed concerns about the coronavirus.
TVA's communications vice president, Buddy Eller, said the utility delayed its original plans to start bringing back office employees to their worksites after Labor Day after the CDC restored some of its guidelines for social distancing and mask-wearing to limit the spread of the virus, which has become more contagious with the growth of the delta variant.
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TVA delaying plans to return workers to offices as coronavirus pandemic worsens
August 5, 2021 | by Dave Flessner | Copyright © 2021
The Tennessee Valley Authority is delaying its plans to bring back most of its staff to its offices until January due to ongoing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and its delta variant and the success the utility is finding with remote work by its employees. ... A majority of the TVA's 10,000-employee staff, who have been working remotely from home for nearly 17 months, will continue to telework for another five months or more before returning to their old work sites.
"Given the growth in the delta variant and the guidance coming from the [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the White House, we went ahead and made this decision that we think makes a lot of sense," TVA President Jeff Lyash said in an interview Thursday. "It will help give our workers more certainty as they plan their lives for the next six months and we continue to do our work without much, if any, loss in productivity. Our workforce has been very effective in adapting to this telework and the flexibility that comes with it, so we have been able to build our processes and procedures around this type of work environment."
TVA joins other major U.S. corporations, including Amazon and Google, that have announced plans in the past week to push back their schedules for bringing back their corporate staff to offices because of renewed concerns about the coronavirus.
TVA's communications vice president, Buddy Eller, said the utility delayed its original plans to start bringing back office employees to their worksites after Labor Day after the CDC restored some of its guidelines for social distancing and mask-wearing to limit the spread of the virus, which has become more contagious with the growth of the delta variant.
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