72% of office workers have left Manhattan

Don Surber Blog ^ | 11/12/2021

[SeekAndFind]

For a year and a half, New York City's communist mayor and the state's dumber-than-Fredo governor used covid to shove people around. They closed restaurants and forced people to wear masks. Crime rose as the Red Mayor promoted BLM lawlessness. And the Dumb Guv spread covid into nursing homes and killed 15,000 grannies.

That's right. 1 in 20 (5%) of the covid deaths last year were due to Andrew Cuomo's order that nursing homes take in covid patients.

The press hailed him as a hero.

But there's a new governor and in a couple of months Gotham will have a new mayor. But the damage has been done. Employers have discovered Zoom. What was temporary is now permanent.

Kathryn Wylde, who heads Partnership for New York City, told WABC, "Of Manhattan's 1 million office workers, 28% are back. And of those, only 8% are back full time."

That means 72% of those jobs are gone for now. The survey showed 43% of the jobs are gone permanently.

That's 720,000 people aren't buying coffee in the morning and lunch in the afternoon. The covid rules hit bars and restaurants. Politicians thought it was temporary. Nope. They're gone, victims of Democrat policies that failed to stop the spread of covid or even flatten the curve.

The WABC story said, "Governor Kathy Hochul is urging New York City employers to bring their workers back now, after a new survey showed the majority of people are still working remotely."

The story said, "When employers were asked to rank factors to which they attribute the slow return to the office, the status of COVID ranked as the largest factor, with 48% citing it as the primary concern.

"Hochul says short of banning Zoom, which she says she won't do, people need to get back to work."

When a Democrat promises she won't do something, bet on her doing it eventually.

There is some hope in that survey as that 28% showing up for work at least three days a week is expected to rise to 57% by the end of January.

While 48% of the employers said this was driven by covid, NYC and the state pose other problems.

Crime rose during the communist reign of Mayor De Blasio. The Knockout Game has the young randomly striking people in their 40s and older.

Taxes and rents also are a problem.

And the new governor is a Karen.

AP reported last month, "Workers facing layoffs in New York state now have a right to ask their employers instead to trim all workers’ hours and have unemployment insurance help offset the losses for everyone, under a law that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Saturday."

If the work can be done with Zoom, why stay in a New York where companies are subjected to the whims of anti-capitalist legislators and governors?

Rent a post box in Poca, get a business license, and Zoom to your heart's content.

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[Secret Agent Man]

And yet the garbage piling up seems to be for a lot more people than that.

debla bla ought to be happy, this takes so much strain off the hospitals and fire dept and police

[pangaea6]

oh they will look for a way to tax Zoom, just watch

[dfwgator]

Sounds like Billy Joel’s “Miami 2017” is coming to fruition just a few years late.

[TheShaz]

Now with the reality of high inflation. Nobody wants to commute if they don’t have to.

They evacuate the city for three weeks to flatten the curve, and that three weeks have turned into 18+ months.

Businesses adapt.

My office has been vacant except for IT people watching the servers.

They are trying to get people to come back into the office but just about everyone is refusing. They have fired some for refusing but that didn’t scare the rest. There has been a rash of resignations.

I doubt my company is alone with this problem.

Me personally, I do not want to go back to the office full time. Gas is too expensive. Inflation is a tax on the middle class and it hurts.

[conservativeimage]

[Singermom]

That is a start. Now if the rest of you could move you would be safer and not pay so much for normal stuff.

[WMarshal]

There is a coming collapse of Commercial real estate prices coming and the Biden Regime is doing everything to hold it back but the damn break.

[Equine1952]

Rush Limbaugh seen this coming a year or so before he died. In fact he left years ago because the City was a waste of space and money.

[allendale]

When the Biden bucks run out, New York City will collapse. It functions only because of massive, non productive Federal subsidies. It is no longer necessary as a central business location. Covid may have been the catalyst along with political absurdities and the breakdown of law and order, but it was the silicon chip that made those huge central office complexes obsolete.

[marktwain]

It functions only because of massive, non productive Federal subsidies.

Exactly. President Trump was refusing to prop them up.

The stolen election in 2020 was, in part, because the corrupt urban democrats had run the cities into the ground, and were desperate for bailouts.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

"Hochul says short of banning Zoom, which she says she won't do, people need to get back to work."

This is perhaps the most ignorant remark I have heard from a political figure on the (topic of the) Internet and Internet based technologies since I watched Sen Exxon promoting the Communications Decency Act in the 1990's as a way to keep porn off the Internet. He totally misunderstood the jurisdiction of the act and the architecture of the Internet.

Hochul could not ban the use of Zoom. That she does not know this reinforces my belief that she will only be an unelected Governor, for as long as it takes to elect her successor.

[Angelino97]

Zoom and Skype transmit over the internet, and thus raise all sorts of privacy concerns.

[Angelino97]

Perhaps Hochal meant that she might ban the use of Zoom by government employees. She probably could do that, at least for state employees.

She might even be able to ban the use of Zoom by companies doing business with the state. I don't know.

But I've never used Zoom, and wouldn't want to, due to privacy concerns.

[pepsionice]

Biden’s bucks will linger around until the end of 2024. The GOP guy that then arrives (Trump or DeSantos) will then curtail the ‘help’.

I’ll predict between 2027 and 2028...a colossal economic stumble occurs with real estate prices screwed-up and lessening tax revenue in NYC. Throw in the crime escalation and increasing city contributions to make the subway functional....it’s a dead city by 2030.

[mad_as_he$$]

VPN are your friend.

[Lockbox]

I read an article which stated 55% of office workers refuse to come back. They work remotely. If mandated to return to the office, the remote workers would find another remote job.

So, restaurants, office buildings, close by apartments, etc will all be destroyed! These business cannot survive on a 25% reduction in revenue, let alone a 50% drop! So cities, there goes your tax revenue!

[The Antiyuppie]

“Hochul says short of banning Zoom, which she says she won’t do, people need to get back to work.”

Just that this would even have occurred to anyone as an idea is, in itself, frightening.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Workers facing layoffs in New York state now have a right to ask their employers instead to trim all workers’ hours and have unemployment insurance help offset the losses for everyone, under a law that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Saturday.”

Straight out of Atlas Shrugged.

[mewzilla]

That’s why Deep State put her there.