I don't believe companies will force employees back to the office to help the NY economy - they will do if if/when they realize enough people aren't doing their

I don't believe companies will force employees back to the office to help the NY economy - they will do if if/when they realize enough people aren't doing their jobs as effectively while remote - and imo, lots of companies are seeing that already. Plenty of people - myself included - are more productive at home, and I have been a remote employee for more than 35 years, and it all that time have been on site - anywhere - for less than two weeks. On the other hand, as someone who has the ability to view what other people are doing with their time (who doesn't know by know that every interaction you have with a system is tracked in infinite detail) - I know of plenty of folks who are putting in less than an hour of day of work. One contracted resource I was asked to track put in for 8 hours of pay 2 days in a row, and was in the system - where all of the work is done - for a total of 1 minute and 19 seconds one day, and eleven minutes the next. It won't take many of these stories to throw the baby out with the bath water and some companies will force everyone back into the office.