Much has been written about managing through the lockdowns of the pandemic. But what can managers do to set themselves and their teams up for success when lockdowns and social distancing requirements are eventually lifted?
To explore this question, we surveyed more than 350 employees in Wuhan, China just three weeks after a strict city-wide lockdown was lifted in early April. The vast majority of the respondents had been forced to stop working when their employers shut down during the lockdown, and those employers were motivated to make a speedy return to normal operations while doing everything they could to avoid a resurgence of the virus.