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Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees return to NYC
- _vertigo 5y agoGood luck!
- nerdponx 5y agoThe current headline is: "Cuomo begs businesses to return to NYC after devastating shutdown" The article is full of some funny quips, too: > "So let me get this straight..when Republicans have been saying this that means they are science deniers trying to kill people, but when @NYGovCuomo finally says this today then he is a genius who should write another book about his incredible leadership?" Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., tweeted. "Did I get that right?" > "Brilliant strategist... it's incredible that no one thought of this months ago!" Donald Trump Jr. joked in response.
- jjeaff 5y agoDon Jr.'s quip is only funny if you are laughing -at- him. There was a pretty good reason not to encourage employees to come in to the office in NYC months ago.
- giantrobot 5y ago> The article is full of some funny quips, too: Neither of those quips is funny. They show what should be an embarrassing level of ignorance if not outright stupidity. The state of the world even six months ago was COVID vaccines were only available to the most vulnerable groups. Six months ago clamoring about states opening up and people returning to offices was asinine. Six months ago a small enough portion of the populace was vaccinated that the danger of COVID spreading was the same as the preceding six months.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI strongly encourage employers mandating a return to office in NYC to publicly announce it. Makes it straightforward to identify where to source new remote talent from.
- jjeaff 5y agoHave a friend in HR at a fortune 500 company. He said that early on, they were not sure on what the work from home rules would be and they found that applicants were simply ghosting them when they found that it wasn't a set in stone policy yet. They are trying to hire a lot of tech talent and so they had to officially declare that people would have extensive work from home privileges if they were going to get anywhere close to their hiring goals.
- ezekg 5y agoYou reap what you sow, Cuomo.
- jessaustin 5y agoHow has he not been impeached already? https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/cuomo-nursing-home-order-caused-more-deaths-task-force/ https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/cuomo-nursing-home-order-cause... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/nyregion/cuomo-nursing-home-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/nyregion/cuomo-nursing-ho...
- misiti3780 5y agoThe same reason SF elected Chesa Boudin. NY's best days are behind it.
- fnord77 5y agoChesa got 14% of the vote. And my gut feeling on city sentiment is right, he’s going to get recalled.
- iammisc 5y agois this true? How is one elected with 14% of the vote?
- PhineasRex 5y agoIt's not true. He got 50.8% of the vote. Even if you just look at the first round of IRV he got 35% of first-choice votes (https://ballotpedia.org/District_Attorney_election_in_San_Francisco,_California_(2019) https://ballotpedia.org/District_Attorney_election_in_San_Fr...)
- iammisc 5y agoThanks for the source. Even if I were to try the best interpretation of the claim above, which would be that Boudin got 14% of the vote in the first round of a ranked choice scheem, that falls flat. Boudin was the first choice of a plurality of the city. This claim falls extremely flat.
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- applepple 5y agoHe just wants to bring back tenants for his cronies at all costs...
- misiti3780 5y agoHe should have been impeached six months ago.
- sfe22 5y agoSo, suddenly, lowering carbon emissions isn’t that important anymore
- bradleyjg 5y agoGetting people working in NYC is probably good for reducing carbon emissions. Even working from home few places in the country are people going to be carless and certainly are less likely to live in environmentally friendly housing.
- torstenvl 5y agoCuomo pushes employers to force their employees to <s>return to</s> flee from NYC-based companies FTFY
- Animats 5y ago"Remember, we have to get people back and we have to get people back in volume. If you were to see a 15% decline of people coming back to New York City, that would have a devastating impact on the commercial market," Cuomo said. He means the commercial real estate market. Remote work is terrifying to NYC commercial landlords. Right now, about 17% of NYC commercial real estate is on the market as vacant. A lot more is probably leased but unused. Are all those skyscrapers really necessary? If SF had a 15% decline in people coming back to the office, that would probably be a win.
- Animats 5y agoUpdate: 19% vacant, per NYT. 21% in downtown Manhattan. "A third of leases at large Manhattan buildings will expire over the next three years, according to CBRE, a commercial real estate services company, and companies have made clear they will need significantly less space." Yet there's still 14 million square feet of commercial space under construction. Anyone need a spare skyscraper?
- SmellTheGlove 5y agoI mean, NYC rents are still through the roof. They could build out housing in these tall empty spaces.
- giantg2 5y agoThat was my thought, but I'm guessing the retrofit would be really expensive.
- foolinaround 5y agohousing would follow the work places, and as they go, housing demand is not a given.
- SmellTheGlove 5y agoI hear you, but it's NYC - rents are still high enough that I'm thinking demand for housing is there even if demand for office space isn't.
- purple_ferret 5y agoNYC has a budget of 100 billion, NY state a budget of 215 billion. Has to get funded somehow!
- wobblyasp 5y agoSo he basically just suggested that employers should encourage employee to come back to the office? Given the audience, and what the city stand to lose, his comments seem appropriate to me. It's not like he's mandating offices force people back in or face penalties
- literallyaduck 5y agoNo one wants to go back to the dysfunctional way things were.
- nemo44x 5y agoIt’s not only shops that make a living on commuters but also, very importantly, tax payers. If you live in NJ or CN and commute to an office in NYC then you pay state income tax to NY - which has a higher marginal rate than it’s neighbors. But if you have an arrangement where you work from home then you no longer have to pay taxes to NY. Also, people that live in NYC because they don’t want to commute have an additional (not insignificant!) NYC resident tax so if you move out that’s again more tax revenue lost. It will be in the many billions.
- ausbah 5y ago"come back to support commercial real estate"
- randerson 5y agoConsidering how many remote employees have their pick of companies they can work for remotely, good luck convincing people to return to what are now the highest taxes in the country.
- joelbondurant 5y agoNobody wants to be around communist USA tyrants any more.
- kaminar 5y agoImpeached? He needs to be tried for treason and mass murder, then quickly sentenced, drawn and quartered.