Metro By Carl Campanile Published Nov. 5, 2023, 12:33 p.m. ET Foot traffic in New York City’s business districts is still down 33% from pre-COVID-19 levels, making it one of the slowest recovering cities in the country, according to a recent survey. A study by the University of Toronto analyzed foot traffic in major cities …
The year was 2020, and schools abruptly closed. Kids Zoomed into kindergarten, and someone had to supervise them. Disproportionately, that task fell—because of course it did—to moms. So out of necessity, the moms quit their jobs. Thus began America’s first female recession. Beyond the immediate trauma of job and income loss, economists worried that this …
According to NPR, working from home is no longer the trend. As they put it on their show Morning Edition, “working from home is so 2020.” So, what’s the next big thing? Well, as the Wall Street Journal highlighted last month, the hottest new office is actually the gym. In fact, a lawyer from …
Is Being an Office or Remote Employee Better? How Working from Home Can Help the Planet Even after the COVID-19 pandemic taught us to appreciate working from home, the debate between office and remote work continues. Bosses argue that being physically close foster unique collaborations, while employees prefer the uninterrupted environment of remote work. However, …
TikTok, the China-based company owned by ByteDance, is reportedly causing distress among its US employees with the introduction of a new internal app called “MyRTO.” This app will track office attendance and enforce a minimum requirement of three days per week starting in October. The New York Times reported that employees have expressed frustration and …
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has implemented a new policy requiring employees to return to the office for at least three days a week, marking a shift from the remote work policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company believes that distributed work will still be important in the future, but for now, they want …
As the summer comes to an end, doctors are concerned about a potential “tripledemic.” This raises the question for office workers about what they can do if they find themselves working alongside someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or is sick with another illness like the flu. In the early stages of the pandemic, …
Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, is urging workers to return to the office, stating that it may not work out for those who refuse. This sentiment is shared by other top executives who are looking to bring employees back to in-person work after the COVID pandemic forced many to work from home. As a …
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has delivered a firm warning to employees who are resistant to the company’s return-to-office mandate. Speaking during a recent meeting, Jassy expressed his frustration over employees not taking the mandate seriously. Although he declined to share specific data justifying the decision, Jassy stood by his judgment to require employees to return …
Landlords in New York City aren’t the only ones frustrated with Kastle Systems’ Back-to-Work Barometer, which claims to track physical office occupancy. The President/CEO of Philadelphia’s Center City business improvement district, Paul R. Levy, expressed his anger over a recent Wall Street Journal article that labeled downtown Philly as “one of the emptiest office districts …