Your boss wants you back in the office despite COVID. Here's why

Bosses are recommitting to their company offices even as Omicron is extending the remote working trend that has kept many of their workers laboring at home since COVID-19 erupted in early 2020.

In a sign that leaders still put a priority on togetherness, office leasing in Los Angeles County finished the year in positive territory after falling during most of the pandemic.

The shift suggests that executives are bullish on the future of their businesses and have decided that offices are important to have even if their employees keep working remotely some of the time in the years ahead.

"People like the hybrid model" of splitting their labors between the office and home, CBRE real estate broker Todd Doney said, "but the thought that offices are dead is far