Offices in America’s biggest cities are still less than half occupied, reflecting the impact of remote work despite an ongoing campaign by many employers to summon workers back to their desks.
According to a weekly update by access control company Kastle Systems, offices across 10 cities were just 37.8 percent occupied on average as of Nov. 23. That figure was down from 48.1 percent the previous week, due to employees taking off early for Thanksgiving, but the drop was steeper than in the same period last year.
In fact, office occupancy on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was only 24.9 percent, lower than the 33 percent recorded on the same day in 2021, suggesting that Americans worked from home throughout Thanksgiving week even more often than last year….