At an office in SoHo, rows of desks sit empty, while a shaggy dog — shadowing an owner nostalgic for work-from-home comforts — wanders the conference rooms.
On the subway, commuters delight in a once-unimaginable indulgence: bag-spreading across two seats.
About a year and a half after Mayor Eric Adams chided workers — “You can’t stay home in your pajamas all day!” — New York’s offices in late August were under 41 percent of their prepandemic occupancy.
Just 9 percent of the city’s office workers were going in five days a week at the start of the year, according to the Partnership for New York City, a business group.
Remote-work levels crisscrossing the country are more mixed, with just under one-third of America’s workdays now done from home.
Persons:
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Locations:
SoHo, New York City, New York