Too rational for a Democrat to wrap its mind around. 
Posted on 05/04/2022 10:25:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
NEW YORK — It was February, the Omicron surge was abating and Mayor Eric Adams was telling New Yorkers, “The best thing we can do to deal with Covid is get back to work.” But the city’s public advocate, a fellow Democrat who’s running for governor, offered a different prescription for managing the pandemic and reviving the local economy.
“As Covid-19 cases thankfully drop across New York,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said, “the way forward is to forge a new normal, in line with the science and with the needs of New Yorkers, with an eye toward the future for both the risk of new surges and the potential for a new transformative economy that centers on working people.”
Since then, the intraparty divide has continued. Moderate Democratic leaders such as Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are pushing for a more robust return to the office that they say is crucial for the city’s economic recovery, while Democrats to their left argue they should accept that many workers prefer to be remote for the long haul, and New York City’s economy should adapt accordingly.
The split means there’s no shared vision for the post-pandemic future of the nation’s largest metropolis, whose office workers have returned at a slower rate than in most other big cities in the U.S. CEOs in Manhattan are cobbling together their own approaches, many leaving once-overflowing office suites nearly empty — caving to workers who’ve come to love the work-from-home life.
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Rush predicted this. People would discover no need to live or work in NYC and deal with crime and high rents, etc.
The tax base is crashing. So the dems will raise them more. That should work...
Here is an idea: Convert a lot of those office buildings into condos, make more housing so the price of housing in the city overall can go down, so now people can work from home AND people can afford to live there AND these buildings are not abandoned
How will they blame Trump for this?
Get rid of cubicles and go with an open office plan.
Too rational for a Democrat to wrap its mind around.
>Get rid of cubicles and go with an open office plan.
Are you out of your mind?! EVERYTHING in the last 15 years has been open office, if anything cubicles need to come back. People worked better when they had a sense of privacy, with open office your next door snooty Karen co-worker will look at you at all times to find even the tiniest thing to complain about
Three weeks ago after 2 years away I returned to the office one day a week.
One day a week in the office—see a few people in person for one-on-one meetings, get my favorite burrito I missed—together with 4 days at home is a perfect balance. One day a week in the office breaks up the monotony of 5 days of working from home.
>and when you’re done, what do you have? an expensive, makeshift apartment in a dying city.
Did you not read my post? The whole point of those conversions is to save the city
The "open office plan" is the number one reason that 80%-plus of the office workforce doesn't want to return to the offices.
It's a barnyard atmosphere, hostile by design, with noise and distraction non-stop.
If we have the technology for people to work from home or a home office, as was demonstrated for the past two years, there's no reason to waste all that real estate.
Sure renovating a kitchen is expensive but we are still building within the confines of an existing building, not building an entire structure from scratch
It wouldn’t bother me if NYC collapsed inward on itself and disappeared from the face of the earth. What a blight.
The problem is that if NYC collapsed then all the people would disperse and cause destruction wherever they may go.
Same for San Francisco.
Just had a recruiter ask me if I was interested in a particular job.
As soon as they said the office was next to the Transamerica building I ended the conversation.
There are more crazies screaming at the sky, in the financial district, than I care to get near...
Sorry I didn’t realize English wasn’t your primary language
Like it or not working from home is going to increasingly be the norm from now on. There are a lot of good aspects of this. It eases congestion, saves time, saves fuel and makes workers less subject to office politics. It will be great for smaller cities and small towns.
For the restaurants and other businesses that depend on office commuters its a disaster. For commercial real estate it will be a disaster and for expensive big cities like New York and San Francisco it will be a death knell.
If you can live in the exurbs or a small town, still get the same salary (which will go farther), and have to put up with less traffic, less noise, less pollution and less crime...why the hell wouldn’t you? Do you really want to live in a little concrete box in the sky when you could have a nice ranch house on a half acre lot with plenty of room to garden or for your dogs and/or have a deck to relax on and do some grilling?
psssst, Democrats are utterly dependent on big cities. As this bites into them and strengthens small towns and the countryside........
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