In December, the national government began to vaccinate the elderly for the third dose, mainly due to the appearance of a new strain, Omicron, whose impact on the population is still being evaluated worldwide.

On the other hand, if we compare the behavior of the habitual passerby in the main Mexican cities where corporate life takes place, there has been an easy adaptation to following the behavioral guidelines when wearing the mask and maintaining care when using gel and measuring temperatures when entering to closed areas such as shops, restaurants and offices.

At first, the free will adopted by the Mexican authorities generated contradictory opinions due to the large number of deaths and hospitalizations, but as the pandemic increased their length of stay, it seems that self-regulation has at least worked in an important part of the population that is very conscious of the risks of getting sick.

For this reason, companies already at this time of year have tested the premises for coupling their work teams, generating various configurations of greater or lesser assistance from personnel to the offices.

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Some corporations maintain a hybrid model where workers can work one or two days from home and the rest from the office, which allows them to control the capacity in spaces already resized for the new way of working.

Open work rooms with conference areas and some private spaces for common use with advance reservation, very similar to those already offered by coworking, set the new standard in office design.

If we take the Insurgentes metrobus and get off at a station such as the World Trade Center or Colonia del Valle, between 8 and 9 in the morning, we will be able to see an influx of at least 70-80% of what we observed in periods prior to the pandemic.

Staff attendance at work centers generates a demand for goods and services that creates income downstream in the economy, since for stays of more than 8 hours in offices, many workers use shops, banks, food franchises and to schools for children near their jobs.

Just imagine an average family in the Mexican capital that lives in the state of Mexico and works in Bosques de La Reforma whose family group is made up of the couple, a teenager and two children who were studying near their work and now must deal with periods of face-to-face and online classes and combine it with the hybrid presence at your workplace.

Before the situation was not easy at all due to the long periods they spent in traffic, but at least they, that family had chosen the option of personal and work balance that best suited them.

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We know that the pandemic has opened up new possibilities for some people to choose models that were previously unthinkable and that now favor them, but a large part of the population requires that the options that were previously presented can return and that they are the ones who can choose their best alternative .

Let's hope that next 2022 we will be able to navigate the risks of the new strains that will continue to appear from the strengths and learnings that the pandemic has left us so that we can each in their particular scenario choose the model that best adjusts to the balance of our personal life fulfilling the possibilities that arise within our jobs.

For this reason, the return of workers will be key so that companies have greater certainty of their income and expenses scenarios, which would allow the gradual return of a corporate demand that allows progress in the recovery of this sector.