Many employees have returned to the in-person daily grind more than two years after the pandemic reshaped public life, but economic impacts will be “pretty significant” if even a fraction of the workforce continues to embrace hybrid or remote models, Gov. Charlie Baker said on Thursday.
Massachusetts will need to adapt its workforce training, public transit and child care systems to better support workers in a post-COVID-19 economy, a special legislative commission recommended Tuesday in a new report developed over the past year looking at ways the pandemic has changed the economy.
Data that tracks the movements of cell phone users tells a stark story of two workplace cultures in the COVID era. Employee and visitor foot traffic at life science building is significantly above that leased to traditional downtown office tenants.
The future of the office remains hazy, but it’s clear that many inner suburban markets are doing fine. But it’s not due to any much-ballyhooed shifts by tenants to “hub and spoke” occupancy models.
Nearly two years since the first case of COVID-19 was officially detected in Massachusetts, the biggest question hanging over the state’s economy remains the continued uncertainty of the global pandemic, an economics and policy researcher said Wednesday.
