After two years of overly optimistic forecasts, blown deadlines, backtracking and pushback, it's fair to say the return to the office isn't going as planned.
In downtown Seattle, offices are just 42% as full as they were before COVID-19, according to the latest data from the Downtown Seattle Association. That's an improvement over the previous four months, when it averaged 35%, and it's in line with a 10-city average tracked by Kastle Systems.
But it's still well short of return-to-office goals of many employers, a majority of which hoped to bring workers back at least 2 1/2 days a week or more by now, according to a DSA survey in December.
