What Factors Motivate Employees To Return To The Office?

According to the San Francisco Business Times April 30, 2021, Austin, Texas averaged a 30.8% office occupancy rate while San Francisco had a 12.2% office occupancy rate during the pandemic. There may be several reasons for this, including Texas’s much looser restrictions during the pandemic and in Austin many employees drive to work. In San Francisco the mass transit is only running a fraction of normal ridership and this has slowed the migration back into the office. San Francisco also has many more high-rises than Austin, and with California’s more restrictive pandemic rules waiting in line, socially distanced, for an elevator cab that can perhaps only accommodate 2-4 riders at a time makes physically getting to the office problematic.