A little over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, progress in mass vaccination across the country has raised new hopes of a return to some semblance of normalcy, including in the workplace. While many employers and employees crave a return to the pre-pandemic "normal," COVID-19 has ushered in changes that will have a long-lasting impact on the modern-day workplace. The pandemic saw large numbers of employers and employees transition to working from home virtually overnight. These same employers now are weighing whether to permit or encourage remote work going forward. Yet the many federal, state and local wage-and-hour laws were enacted in a pre-COVID world where the complexities created by remote work of course were not envisioned or addressed.