Office Usage Spikes Above Halfway Mark After Labor Day, Kastle Reports

Office usage rose to 50.3% for the period after the Labor Day weekend holiday — the week ending Sept. 13 — in the 10 metro markets Kastle tracks for its Back to Work Barometer, putting the total over 50% for the first time since July.

That represented a turnaround from the period ending Sept. 6, when the barometer came in at 47%.

Kastle noted that there was a seasonal element to the increases, since for each of the post-Labor Day periods since the pandemic, there have been gains in most markets.

Corporate policy demanding that workers return to the office have ramped up and could be contributing to the increase, though the evidence for that is still inconclusive...   ...more

RSK: Seems like more of a blip than a spike.