City Centres Fall Behind Outlying Regions in Returning to Office, Environics Data Shows
Sep 6, 2022, 08:56 AM
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The Globe and Mail
Environics Analytics analyzes how downtown cores are faring with return-to-work by using anonymized, privacy-compliant data from mobile devices, as well as neighbourhood demographics and business dataWhile pandemic restrictions have lifted and fewer people are working remotely from home full time, the return to the workplace is far from even within cities, let alone across the country. EA calculated the aggregate change in the number of days spent at workplaces in Canada’s five largest metropolitan areas between January 2020, before the pandemic hit, and July 2022.