Return to Business and Post-Pandemic Planning Checklist

Developing a Return to Business Action Plan

Getting started with your return-to-business plan involves a comprehensive understanding of your business and how it fits into the new legal landscape.

The foundation of a successful plan contemplates the people involved (both your workforce and the leaders of your business functions from HR to communications), the place of work (including health and safety and continuing requirements around social distancing), and elements of the business (such as stimulus, taxes, insurance and more).

This checklist provides a roadmap to navigating those issues, with three overarching themes:

• Past experience should inform future decisions. Tackling the shutdown and reacting to the pandemic was brand new for all of us, but it also gave us tools to prepare for the nation’s reopening - leveraging lessons learned during the pandemic will position you for a smoother transition back to work.
• Plan, plan, then plan again. Guidance is constantly changing (as are local, state, and national directives), so implement appropriate social distancing and health and safety measures now, but stay flexible, knowing that you will need to revisit and retweak your return to work plan many times over the coming days, weeks, and months.
• This is a NEW normal. Return to business is not a return to normal - and may never be. How has the pandemic impacted your business goals, and what is the impact of that on who you want to return to work and when?