“Evidence from card swipes suggests that only about half the office space in major U.S. cities is currently in use, with little indication of a return to prepandemic norms”

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Link. St Paul (MN) downtown need more foot traffic in 2019. It’s an echo chamber now.

“rising use of telephones went hand-in-hand with rising business travel: Workers began interacting more with people in other cities, but solidifying these contacts required occasionally meeting them in person.”

We suffered a lot during COVID from lack of true in person interaction. We are primates still.