Employers are in a bind. In the U.S., the COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations were on a steady decline during June. Businesses were tentatively welcoming employees back to the office—unmasked—and the market environment was stabilizing. The Delta variant, however, is challenging that sense of normalcy. With the cluster of cases spread among vaccinated party-goers in Cape Code over July 4 (CDC MMWR) and decreasing vaccination rates across the country, employers who have or were planning to bring employees back into the office need to figure out ways to be proactive and not reactive.