The lack of workers returning to cities has been felt especially deeply in Washington, where remote work has been more popular than in any other U.S. city of significant size. Now, with the pandemic on the wane, district officials are fighting the trend.
A real estate ad at 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
“We really need to advance that conversation quicker,” he told Yahoo News during an interview outside the John A. Wilson Building, where Washington’s city government is housed — and where employees returned to their offices and cubicles many months ago, under what Falcicchio praised as a Bowser plan that stressed both flexibility and collaboration.
It was almost one year ago that President Biden used his first State of the Union address to urge white-collar employees back into the offices that had been sitting empty since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, frustrating landlords, corporate executives and the owners of small businesses that cannot survive without consistent workday crowds.
Although the absence of remote workers has been especially felt in Washington — where the federal government is not only the biggest employer but also the largest landlord, accounting for one-third of all downtown leases — almost every American city has thousands of federal workers.Mostly empty buildings in the Golden Triangle section of Washington, D.C. in January.
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