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Fortune
Ryan Hogg

London firms overcorrecting on office space amid RTO adds to $43 billion upgrade bill

UK, London, blurred motion of incidental business people walking to work with view of the financial district behind (Credit: Shomos Uddin—Getty Images)

London office space may require upgrades surpassing $43 billion to prevent millions of square meters of office space from becoming obsolete, just as businesses step up their return to office drives.

Major cities across Europe, London chief among them, are staring down an office space crunch that is pushing prices up and leaving businesses scrambling to accommodate their returning workers, according to research by real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). 

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