<div>The correct answer is (A) <span style="font-size: 13.008px;">dedicated</span>.</div><div><br></div>Original Sentence: "Retailers are creating new roles to keep up with coronavirus protocols, by hiring employees ______ to such tasks as managing customer traffic, sanitizing shelves, and checking temperatures at the door." <div><br></div><div>To incorporate a relative clause, you could rephrase this sentence as:</div><div>"Retailers are creating new roles to keep up with coronavirus protocols, by hiring employees who are dedicated to such tasks as managing customer traffic, sanitizing shelves, and checking temperatures at the door."</div><div><br></div><div>In this rephrased version, "who are" is the relative clause that relates "employees" (antecedent) to the verb "dedicated." Now, it is common in English to omit the relative pronoun and the verb "be" when the relative pronoun is the object of the verb. This is called a "reduced relative clause."</div><div><br></div><div>In our sentence, "who are" can be omitted, which will reduce the relative clause and give: "Retailers are creating new roles to keep up with coronavirus protocols, by hiring employees dedicated to such tasks as managing customer traffic, sanitizing shelves, and checking temperatures at the door."</div><div><br></div><div>So, the answer "dedicated" fits perfectly in the blank because it's a reduced form of the relative clause "who are dedicated."<p></p></div>