With phases of relaxing COVID-19 restrictions progressing across the Greater Philadelphia region, it’s a time when companies of all sizes are beginning to think about how they will get back to work.

In hundreds of conversations with executives at big firms, Rob Mesirow, the D.C.-based leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Connected Solutions/IoT practice, has found a common topic: “the overwhelming need for these contingencies that will provide comfort to workforces to return to the work environment,” he said. “It could not be more top of mind.”

It’s a problem set crying out for new tools that apply data-centered approaches and can scale quickly across big workforces. In other words, it sounds like an area where tech might play a role. Along with visibility into employees’ current health status, stopping a contagious virus requires tools to identify the people who infected individuals came in contact with, and determine where it might’ve spread.

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