Hybrid remote work schedules here to stay for Downtown Winnipeg
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CTV News surveyed four of downtown Winnipeg’s notable employers: Manitoba Public Insurance, Wawanesa Insurance, Manitoba Hydro, and True North Sports & Entertainment. They all have different working arrangements for their employees.
Evan Chrusch could not ask for a more difficult time to start his law career than in the middle of a pandemic.
Chrusch began articling at Brennan Partners LLP amidst a downtown scene that was much quieter compared to a few years prior.
“Downtown was empty because I started working downtown in 2021, and again it was most offices were closed, skeleton staff, just not a lot of people around,” Chrusch said.
It was an unusual experience for the University of North Dakota graduate who would become an associate with the firm a year later.
“Very odd feeling in a way, almost like something out of a movie when you have the entire city centre basically being emptied out,” Chrusch said.
“Articling in the thick of Covid was, a little bit different because there was no face-to-face,” he said, adding that the majority of court hearings were virtual or just outright cancelled.