- Compared to 2019, the average New York office worker is spending $4,661 less on meals, shopping and entertainment near their workplace, the researchers found. That dropoff is the highest of any city included in the study, outpacing Los Angeles ($4,200), Washington, D.C. ($4,051), and Atlanta ($3,938), among others.
- New York workers are spending about 33% fewer days in the office now than in 2019, according to the study. That ranks fifth among the studied cities, with Washington seeing the highest in-office decline, at 37%.
- ....Only 9% of employees in their offices five days a week—unchanged from September 2022.
- That amounts to at least $12.4 billion a year in losses for the city
- estimated 2.7 million people who worked in Manhattan in 2019.