Once Pandemic Ends, Do We Really Want To Go Back To City Office Life?

Once Pandemic Ends, Do We Really Want To Go Back To City Office Life?

A view of eerily quiet and empty Times Square amid Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic. Whenever the pandemic ends, will people really want to hop on the A-train ever again to get to work in some city office tower somewhere? The pandemic taught us that cities are no place to be in the middle of a public health crisis. If there was ever a situation where hospital beds were running thin and people were dying in greater numbers because of SARS2, it was in a handful of large cities, led by New York in the U. S., Sao Paulo, Moscow, and every crowded city in India. Some banks are in the process of selling off their commercial real estate in Manhattan. They don't want to be there. Neither do their employees. Work-from-home productivity proved that, for the most part, they don't have to be. Sorry, boss... I won't take the A-train. (In case you didn't know where that saying comes from, here is Duke Ellington and his orchestra.) Some 79% of the 9,. 650 people surveyed in 19 countries said they don't want to return to their workplace, according to a new survey conducted by business consultancy Accenture ACN , released today.