Club to host 'Back to the Office' panel, TODAY at 2 p.m.

A panel of experts will analyze the challenges surrounding the return of employees to the office, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30, at the National Press Club.

The event, "Back To The Office: Best Practices for COVID-Safe Workplaces," will feature Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-Va., and ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee; Johnny Taylor, president and chief executive of the Society for Human Resource Management; Christopher J. Jowett, chief commercial officer, Visby Medical, Inc.; and Karla Miller, Washington Post workplace columnist. The discussion will be moderated by Emily Wilkins, a reporter for Bloomberg Government and the Club's membership secretary.

Those wishing to attend this event in-person should register online. This event will also be live-streamed here.

 

The panel will explore some of the key factors related to safety and security, as more and more employees head back to their places of work. How do we keep them safe against emerging coronavirus variants? What is the best way to handle vaccine verification or those not getting vaccinated? 

SHRM will release some new polling data about employers' and employees' attitudes around a return to the office; the panelists will talk about how their organizations (or organizations they cover) are approaching back-to-the-office issues.

One of the companies represented on the panel, Visby Medical, will be providing on-site rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for journalists covering the event. Safety concerns commonly limit the number of journalists who can fit in a room for in-person events, but on-site rapid, accurate and reliable testing can significantly improve those limits. Those interested in photographing or videotaping the testing process should plan to arrive about 1 p.m., one hour prior to the event time. For more information about the testing, contact Visby at [email protected].

On-site accurate and fast testing is a technology Visby Medical supplied, via lab service providers, during the NBA bubble in Orlando in 2020. It is now in use at numerous companies and sites around the country.