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Discount brokerage Redfin is joining the ranks of companies requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to the office.

Company spokesperson confirmed a Seattle Business Journal report that the company instituted the mandate in an Aug. 3 memo. The directive will last “at least until infection rates subside.” Unvaccinated employees will continue to have to work from home.

At the same time, however, the company also declared it was putting off the reopening of its field offices and headquarters. Originally scheduled for Sept. 6, the company now has no firm date in mind when it will return, spokesperson Kenneth Applewhaite said in an email, but the company plans to give workers 30 days’ notice before reopening its facilities.

Despite the decision, the company is putting no restrictions on outdoor events or agents’ meetings with sellers or buyers in-person, whether outdoors or indoors.

Unlike most brokerages, Redfin directly employs its agents, and has dozens of agents in the Greater Boston area.