Posted on 10/27/2020 10:23:27 AM PDT by Vendome
Non-essential offices are allowed to bring employees back to their buildings in San Francisco starting Tuesday.
A 25% indoor capacity limit still applies.
Under the new guidelines, employers must conduct a health check of employees each day.
“When they started realizing what was happening, they shut down our office and made us permanent remote, ” said SF resident Christiana Ratto. “I don’t think anyone is ready to go back to the office. The more I talk to them, it’s still a little iffy.”
“I don’t think anyone is ready to go back to the office.” CHRISTIANA RATTO, SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT
If case rates remain stable or continue to improve in San Francisco for at least 30 days then the city will expand office capacity to 50%.
(Excerpt) Read more at kron4.com ...
They are going to go through the 2nd wave in just one month and then that is the end.
Moreover, people don't want to go back to the office. They have gotten use to working from home.
They have to care for their children who are now on Zoom for the reduced education.
Most professional firms will be substantially reducing their office footprint as they have figured out how to work from home or from anywhere in the world.
I have friends who are going on vacations and working while on vacation but, not taking any vacation time because it doesn't matter where they are just so long as they hit the metric, KPI's or MBO's required
Recent reports from Law Journals and CPA Journals have indicated that they will be reducing their office workforce by as much as 75% and are not renewing leases.
In fact, they no longer feel they have to be in SFO to be relevant to their clients anymore, as their clients are no longer wedded to the city either.
Parking at Embarcadero, 101 and 50 California Street are closed.
Why?
There is maybe 8% of the total people in the buildings.
Here is the real kicker that most people are not going to pickup from the article: The city redefined the workplace and forced everyone out of their offices
They are now redefining the workplace and "allowing" people to go back to work under the most severe restrictions still.
25% can go back to the office?
Why?
All the restaurants, dry cleaners and other services around them are close or have very limited hours.
I wouldn't go back
I’m sure that Christiana Ratto voted for this RAT mayor. I frankly don’t care if she loses everything.
Commercial RE is going down.
It makes you wonder.
My son works for a mid sized publicly traded tech company in Ca. Back in March they closed their offices there. He left his condo there and moved out of state where he’s been doing his job remotely now for 8 months. The offices remain closed.
A month ago the company sent out a survey asking for opinions on reopening and so forth. The actually published the results which showed the vast majority of workers wanted to keep working from home; the majority of managers were satisfied by the work being done from home.
Plus the company’s lease on these offices ends Dec 31. Seems like the perfect time to rethink the need for the previous level of office space. Yet they have announced the steps they are taking to get people back into the office next Spring, including installing plexiglass between everyone and everything; moving desks around so they may need even MORE space.
They have completely ignored an opportunity to use the past 8 months as a gauge as to how productive working remotely was. To downsize office space come Jan 1 with no adverse impact on their current lease. To actually act like a tech company and embrace the tech! Not to mention to listening to the actual employees affected by all this.
Nope. As of now they expect people back in the office next Spring.
At the same time, the company is raising $$ for BLM and is actively announcing the moves to hire/promote minorities and women.
Madness.
CA is about to find out the hard way that there is no such thing as non-essential when it comes to tax-paying business.
Big cities are making themselves irrelevant.
This is a good thing.
I agree, but I wonder how many are such hard core liberals that they insist on going into bankruptcy for their beliefs, as they continue to politely follow continued capricious liberal governmental demands.
I work for a 15,000 person company. Prior to COVID 5% of the people worked from home (including me) and 95% were in the office daily. Right now 95% work from home and only %5 are in the office. Management doesn’t see this changing any time soon.
Their only option out is to call it the fraud that it is and charge the guilty parties accordingly. The trust between government, employer, and employee has been damaged, likely beyond repair in some cases. How many people made real changes with child care, medical care, commuting, residences, etc. and are now expected to just suck it up and pretend it never happened?
There's truth to that. People mostly congregate in big cities because that's where jobs are and that's why the excitement (in their view) is at. COVID killed the city life excitement with 6 month and counting lockdowns and it killed a lot of jobs too. People are rethinking it.
I was in downtown SF today, taking my wife to medical facilities for oncology checkup. Crowded, no parking for blocks around, and looked like business as usual. Medical buildings are full of people, and surrounding shops have customers for coffee, sandwiches etc. Everyone is wearing a mask, but wear them incorrectly. People don't seem fazed by the Covid-19 fears around and in medical facilities. So why are other corporate businesses shut down? It's bizarre.
There is no parking because the parking garages are closed
I hate parking on the street
So why are other corporate businesses shut down? It’s bizarre
By givernment edict
I’ll be post SFO demand for work at home and their criteria and their new criteria today or tomorrow
My question was questioning the wisdom of shutting down corporate businesses. There isn't much wisdom in local government (includes state government). They allow 30,000 protesters in the street, but try to curtail a rally by Trump supporters. They allow mobs to raid stores and shoplift, but fine or arrest hairdressers for having a few customers inside. Law and order is upside down. Bizarre year.
It's always been difficult in SF, even with parking garages. Lots of medical offices west of Van Ness Av downtown, on and around California St from Van Ness Av to Divisadero. Often have to park 6 to 8 blocks away from our destination. I thought it would be easier post-covid, but no, still hard to park. I drop my wife at the medical bldg, hunt for a parking space and then go to the bldg to wait for her. Hate going there, but people fly in from surrounding states for the medical services concentrated in SF. Ongoing cancer treatment she receives for over 20 years, spread out in different buildings in SF. I take my brother-in-law to an eye doctor at offices east of Van Ness, hate it because of homeless and drug addicts there who often steal from cars after busting windows. It's the only place his medical plan allows for his eye injections. At least the west side has no homeless, but the east side of Van Ness into Tenderloin is a mess. I changed my medical plan years ago just to get out of the city for doctors in the suburbs.
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