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Employees are adjusting well to working from home during the pandemic and remain amazingly productive.

The new report from KPMG predicts that bankruptcies by retailers will at least double in 2020, as the COVID-19 closures "intensify the Darwinian struggle for survival that has already been under way."

Rents fell in 16 major markets in March, leading to the biggest slowdown in 30 days since 2014. According to Zillow's real estate market report, the slowest rent growth were in Baltimore, where it was only up .4 percent from last year, and New York, up 1.1 percent from last year.

US unemployment is now expected to peak at 20% in May, according to the report.

The Yardi Matrix report found that the government sector, and the financial services and technology industries have seen the fewest layoffs thus far in the pandemic.

In the last two decades, Florida's downturns in the rental market have seen 7% average rent declines.

An analysis by Nuveen found that a large number of small businesses and poor fiscal health will also determine which cities may struggle.

The growth numbers for most of the top 25 global retailers in the first quarter of 2020 looked bleak as the effects of COVID-19 are showing. Experts are expressing optimism moving forward.