The pandemic was bad. The HR “tidal wave” that’s coming will be terrible.

Imagine you’re on a long car ride. You pull into a gas station for your first break in many hours. There’s one bathroom. You all have to go. Who gets to go? Is it fair?

With uncertainty and anxiety at historic levels, many employees (especially information workers) opted to forego both travel AND career moves during Covid-19. Now that vaccines are providing a powerful boost of protection and hope, businesses are about to experience another wave. It may not be a wave of new cases, but it will almost…