Office Workers Began To Return To Their Offices, Now Headed Back Home

The Wall Street Journal a few days ago reported that the return for office workers back to office buildings has been significantly impacted due to the surge in Covid 19. “About a quarter of employees had returned to work as of Nov. 18, according to Kastle Systems, a security firm that monitors access-card swipes in more than 2,500 office buildings in 10 of the largest U.S. Cities. That rate is sharply up from an April low of less than 15%, which largely consisted of building maintenance and essential workers.” Now corporate executives are reluctant to push their employees to come back to work, and allowing them to continue zooming remotely. Shutdown figures vary widely between different cities with different virus ‘atmospheres’, ie Dallas-Fort Worth Texas had 40.3% of their workers back, while downtown San Francisco is a ghost town.