A person who actually likes New York City writes about all the bad news highly dense urban places have experienced in the last 13 months. Writing for City Journal, Richard Schwartz concludes the future of urbanism isn’t especially rosy.
According to the Partnership for New York City, less than half of Manhattan’s 1 million office employees will return to work in-person by September 2021. Only 22 percent of the city’s top employers will require their employees to work on premises. Roughly 66 percent of the city’s largest companies will embrace the hybrid model that gives employees the option of working in the office or from home. Only 10 percent of Manhattan office employees have returned to the workplace as of early March 2021.
I’ve worked and lived in large cities, but I don’t like them much and try to avoid them when possible. It would appear my experience is far from unique.
