Office occupation has gone up a bit since March 2020, but it increasingly looks as though a new normal isn't going to include old rates of people in office buildings.

The Partnership for New York City released a report based on a survey of 160 big Manhattan office employers to ask to what degree their workers had come back to the office.

"As of mid-September 2022, 49% of Manhattan office workers are currently at the workplace on an average weekday, up from 38% in April. Only 9% of employees are in the office five days a week. The share of office employees that are fully remote dropped from 28% in April to 16% as of mid-September. Return to office rates are projected to increase gradually through the rest of 2022, with 54% of workers expected in the office on an average weekday by January 2023."

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