in Chinese cities - where far fewer people work from home - analysts said there is a much simpler cause for explosion in office vacancies
You can say that again. China and Singapore, the most afraid of covid, most draconian scamdemic mandates and the highest rate of self-policing and covid snitches, yet the FIRST to return to office. In fact they did it a full year, if not a year and a half, before it was "mainstream".
"RTO" as the west knows (and hates) only came about in 2023. In Singapore, most companies were already trying to pack offices in mid-late 2021 around the time or even before the vaccines were first available to the bulk of the working population. They had laws and such surrounding "rotation/shifts" where people were split into A/B teams so not everyone was technically going to office at once... didn't stop various companies from secretly pushing everyone to go in though. Heard China was more or less similar.
Companies break the law? No problem. Individual not wanting to wear a mask outdoors in 90F 90% humidity weather? That's a $2000 fine.
You can say that again. China and Singapore, the most afraid of covid, most draconian scamdemic mandates and the highest rate of self-policing and covid snitches, yet the FIRST to return to office. In fact they did it a full year, if not a year and a half, before it was "mainstream".
"RTO" as the west knows (and hates) only came about in 2023. In Singapore, most companies were already trying to pack offices in mid-late 2021 around the time or even before the vaccines were first available to the bulk of the working population. They had laws and such surrounding "rotation/shifts" where people were split into A/B teams so not everyone was technically going to office at once... didn't stop various companies from secretly pushing everyone to go in though. Heard China was more or less similar.
Companies break the law? No problem. Individual not wanting to wear a mask outdoors in 90F 90% humidity weather? That's a $2000 fine.