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Return-to-Office Barometer Tops 50% for First Time Since the Pandemic Began

While it’s probably too early to declare a trend, the upward post-holiday jump in the 10-city average—based on entry-card swipes—is an important milestone.

By Jack Rogers | February 17, 2023 at 09:35 AM

For the first time since the lockdowns of the pandemic, Kastle’s weekly 10-city return-to-office barometer has reported an average office occupancy level of more than 50 percent.

The 10 major U.S. metros in Kastle’s survey—based on entry-card swipes—averaged 50.4 percent in office occupancy levels for the week ended January 25 (Kastle’s week runs from Wednesday to Wednesday, which is the day the workweek most often ends in the emerging patterns of the post-pandemic hybrid workplace).

In another post-pandemic first, all of the metros tracked in the survey achieved office occupancy averages of 40 percent or above, including the city with the most troubled office sector in the United States, San Francisco—which jumped more than two percentage points to nearly 46 percent.

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