from the workin'-9-to-5-every-Tues-through-Thurs dept.
Remote and hybrid work has altered our understanding of where and how we do our jobs:
A new survey released Thursday from the University of Washington's Mobility Innovation Center and Commute Seattle reveals travel trends that have taken root three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data, collected last fall, is further evidence of the shift in habits that is impacting Seattle's downtown core.
Among the findings:
- Seattle workers are more likely to physically commute to their workplace on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. In the Center City, 39% of people telework on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Monday and Friday, they are much more likely to telework with 57% of people teleworking on Friday.
- Center City commuters used public transit 46% of the time in 2019. The number dropped to 18% in 2021 and was up to 22% in 2022.
- Drive-alone commute trips to the Center City declined since 2019, from a rate of 26% during that year, to 25% in 2021, and 21% in 2022.
[...] The mid-week in-person trend is backed up by what small business owners are seeing and feeling around parts of downtown Seattle and South Lake Union, where Amazon, Google, Facebook and other large tech companies have offices.
[...] Amazon's call to require corporate and tech workers back in the office at least three days a week was welcome news to restaurant owners, food truck operators and others who have been impacted by the lack of foot traffic since remote work took hold in 2020.
During DSA's annual "State of Downtown" event this week, the organization's president, Jon Scholes, said, "There's a lot at stake," in getting workers back to the office in the urban core. "We built a physical economy, not a virtual one. And it has fed this tax base that has been so important to the quality of life that we've created in this city."
(Score: 4, Informative) by isostatic on Tuesday March 21, @06:33AM
> commute to their workplace on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
They’re known as TWATs
(Score: 4, Funny) by Opportunist on Tuesday March 21, @09:55AM (1 child)
Great, make it sound like some sort of medical condition. Two can play that game, how do you like "cubicle craziness" and "open plan disease disaster"?
I'm living great with my affliction. I have absolutely no need for your cure, thank you very much. Quite frankly, the cure sounds way, way worse than the disease. What it's going to take to get me back to an office? Me being able to live there, alone and only with the people I personally like. I.e. having my home there.
Look, I can understand that you want people to return to office to prop up your business, but do we really want to repeat what we did with building the train stations outside of towns so people would have to prop up the hackney industry?
I'm not here to prop up your failed business idea.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 21, @11:40PM