New York City emerged from its coronavirus-imposed stasis Monday morning to a landscape altered by the coronavirus and protests over systemic racism.
Greenfield is hopeful the company will start up more business as customers who lost or gained weight during stay-at-home times order new suits or order suits and tuxedos for Zoom weddings. The business, which continued to pay employees and benefits during the shutdown, has to reopen with fingers crossed.
As Tod Greenfield made his calls this week to determine whether employees were healthy and feeling confident about coming back, he found that some, especially older workers, weren't. One call was to an employee whose father had died from COVID-19. The worker himself contracted the illness a month ago and recovered. But when he got the call, he said,"I'm ready, boss," Greenfield reported.
Essential construction work on projects like airports and hospitals never stopped during the shutdown, but now work is resuming on the backlog. That will put employees back on the job for now. After that, it's unknown what the appetite will be to fund new projects.
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