People Are Returning to Restaurants, Stores and Hotels. But Not Yet the Office.

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Airlines, restaurants and sports arenas are filling back up. One place that isn’t yet: offices

Fewer than three out of 10 white-collar employees were working at the office on average in 10 major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., according to Kastle Systems. The nationwide security company monitors access-card swipes in more than 2,500 office buildings in cities across the country.

As of Monday, an average of 31% of office workers had returned to the workspaces they occupied before theThe number of employees who are back in the office has been inching up since vaccines began rolling out in the U.S. In some cases, employees have pushed back on their employers’ requests to return. In others, companies are waiting until the fall—when vaccinations will be even more widespread and schools will be in session—to more widely reopen offices.

Office workers “are not coming back in force yet,” said Mark Ein, Kastle’s chairman. “Habits that have been formed over the last year and a half are going to take a while to break.”

 

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You can’t compare going to an office to spend time I sport arenas , airline travel and. Restaurants. The Office it’s the ODD ONE OUT as you go to work, the others are fun and amusement

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We know now we can work from home. Why go back to traffic, commuter trains, auto expenses? I have taken to showering at night rather than getting up an hour early to fix my hair. I can work in comfortable clothes. Why go to the office?

Yeah, let’s keep it that way.

thanks

Airlines - fun Restaurants - fun Sports arenas - fun Offices - not fun

as the us virus and vaccine is still killing people, we really doubt office will reopen within this year

I hope the office never goes back to 'normal'

good luck

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