Business is booming at upstate coworking spaces
For a brief and happy moment this summer, members of coworking spaces from Albany to Newburgh were able to take off their masks. People were newly vaccinated and regional COVID-19 rates were low.
“We got to say hello to each other for the first time,” says Judy Tallerman, owner of CoWork Kingston. The experience was short-lived. “Now we are back to wearing masks.”
Thirty minutes south at One Epic Place in New Paltz, it’s a similar scene. After a summer in which the co-owners were able to relax (i.e. suggest but not enforce handwashing) they’ve instituted mandatory measures like masking again.
“We are now pretty much where we were in the beginning of COVID: mask wearing in all common areas, unless in a private space or at your own desk,” laments co-owner Nicole Langlois.
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