Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul have repeatedly begged private companies to wind down remote work and bring their employees back to downtown and midtown. But they embrace the reality that the office workers who can stay home will. RossBarkan writes
Times have changed. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A recent survey found that New York City bled hundreds of thousands of residents in 2020 and 2021, with the pandemic taking a significant toll. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the trend might at least partly reverse itself in 2022, but the structure of the city may be transformed permanently. The outer boroughs are recovering far faster than midtown.
But rather than bemoan this state of affairs, Adams and Hochul should fully gird for it and even embrace the reality that the office workers who can stay home will. Before the pandemic, New Yorkers had the longest one-way commute times in the country, as rising rents forced more middle-class workers to live farther away from their Manhattan jobs. The 24/7 subway remains a New York miracle, but no one outside of transit workers should be spending hours of their day there.
At this point, a large number of companies have realized they can remain profitable while respecting the wishes of workers who want to stay home or come to the office sparingly. And they’ve absorbed the fact that there is little logic, in 2022, to forcing entire offices to commute hours at a time to a fixed space in the city’s most expensive borough. This is what the future looks like.
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