Two well-known companies are the latest to announce plans to downsize office space in San Francisco or completely leave.
Jeff Bellisario with the Bay Area Council said the changes are a sign that many big tech companies may never return to pre-pandemic size office spaces in the city. That means policy leaders should start getting creative in trying to entice workers to stay.
"How do you bring back other amenities to make you really want to come back to the office?" Bellisario said."So, you've heard street festivals, street closures, more promenades, cafes. What do you think about Wi-Fi in more places so that you could even work remotely from within downtown San Francisco."
Bellisario said, according to their research, the most cited reason tech workers do not want to return to the office is the commute."Without having to rush the morning or commute, I just have a lot more time to actually do more work without stressing about getting back and forth between home and office," he said.
According to the Bay Area Council, streamlining public transportation in the Bay Area is not an easy problem to solve.
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