Foot Traffic To The Office Steps Up In Q3, Survey Finds

Foot traffic is picking up in U.S. offices, but Mondays and Fridays may still seem like a ghost town.

Office workers returning to the workplace rose nearly 5% in October compared to the same period last year, according to Placer.ai.

That increase in traffic is concentrated in the middle of the week, however.

Placer.ai’s index analyzes foot traffic at 1,300 office buildings in the U.S. While office visits in October were still more than 30% below October 2019, foot traffic continued to pick up this year.

“Even amid entrenched hybrid norms and ongoing pushback against in-person requirements, office visit numbers continue to trend steadily upwards,” the report says... 

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RSK: More back to the office foot traffic may be attributable to the move to hybrid work and not work from home. Still seems like Monday and Friday are the smallest traffic....but Friday has always been that way.