Return To Office' Declared Dead
The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says
Efforts to convince remote workers to return to corporate offices appear to have stalled, based on data from the government, academia, and private-sector organizations.
Stanford economist Nick Bloom this week went so far as to declare the death of "return to the office" - a campaign backed by those with real-estate commitments, commercial landlords, and cities deprived of labor force spending to undo the pandemic-driven pragmatism of working from home.
"Levels of WFH 'working from home' were falling throughout 2020 to 2022, and office occupancy was rising," Bloom wrote earlier this week. "That trend ended in 2023, with both now pancake-flat. Return to the Office is dead."