For American workers in Seattle, the pre-Covid office is gone

Teglovic at his desk at Savills in downtown Seattle. While many remote employees have been ready, and sometimes desperate, to return to the office, others are kicking and screaming the whole way. — The Seattle Times/TNS

SEATTLE: After two years of overly optimistic forecasts, blown deadlines, backtracking and pushback, it's fair to say the return to the office isn't going as planned.

In downtown Seattle, offices are just 42% as full as they were before Covid-19, according to the latest data from the Downtown Seattle Association. That's an improvement over the previous four months, when it averaged 35%, and it's in line with a 10-city average tracked by Kastle Systems.