The Financial Post reports in its Wednesday edition that remote work became a health and legal necessity when the pandemic hit. Post columnists Howard Levitt and Stephen Gillman write that with the epidemic now behind us, employees clearly liked working from home. Even though remote work is becoming the "new normal," we are still in many respects in uncharted waters. The way layoffs and terminations are handled is one such area. The unique challenges in implementing a mass termination of a virtual workplace were recently on display when Bell Canada notified 400 remote union workers that their positions were being eliminated. Bell decided it was best to arrange a series of brief virtual group meetings, during which human resources department officials simply read out scripted notices, informing the affected employees that they were "surplus" and their employment was no more. The fact that they thought they could even get away with this shows to what extent remote workers are viewed as dissociated from the regular workforce. The union immediately took issue with the way the dismissals were conducted, and a highly publicized kvetching session drew national media attention, hurting Bell's reputation as a good employer.