My company is in our current lease for another year and a half. We are a small engineering firm with less than 50 people. Our president is already talking about downsizing considerably once the lease is up. HR put out a survey to our staff about WFH after the pandemic and most people said they would like to continue at least 3 days a week at home.
H’s company lease is up in less than a year and they also plan to downsize and allow people more flexibility to WFH after this is over. His company is headquartered in Europe and before Covid they spent a fortune on travel. Now they have realized that people don’t always need to jump on a plane for a meeting.
D2 has been staying with us and WFH. Her company moved into a gorgeous top of the line new office less than 2 years ago, but it is all open workspace with no cubicles or distancing. They have no idea when they will get to go back to the office or how it will be reconfigured for working in the future.