The attendance rate in offices in Warsaw was approx. 45% in September this year, which places the capital city in third place among 10 European cities included in the ranking “Cushman & Wakefield Reasercher’s interpolation of Google Mobility Data”. Prague came first, with a score of over 80%, followed by Hamburg, with an index of 60%.
The lowest office attendance was in Paris, London and Dublin – approx. 30% of employees each. The average for 10 European cities was around 40% in September 2021 compared to around 60% before the pandemic.
The introduced restrictions and the expectations of individual companies had a significant impact on the levels of office occupancy rates in the largest European cities in 2021. In the European Union, Great Britain and most European countries, employees were obliged to work from home, and the attendance rates were closely correlated with the level of COVID infections. -19. The number of people working in the office increased with the easing of restrictions. Attendance is still relatively low. Successive waves of the pandemic resulted in an alternating increase and decrease in the level of employee attendance. Return to the office was also conditioned by the end of the holiday season and the return of students to school, according to the study
It was wrong to assume that offices were fully occupied prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers in European countries used the flexible work model to varying degrees before – the occupancy rate was then estimated at approx. 60%. Experts predict office attendance will continue to increase unless there is a surge in infections, it also stated.
Most companies in Europe have declared September or October as the date for a coordinated action to return employees to their offices. The target date for companies preferring a longer perspective is January 2022. reminder dose and the specificity of the industry. Tenants from the financial, banking and legal services sector will return to their offices in the following months of 2021, while technology companies (very generally speaking) will postpone their return to January 2022.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield and ISBnews
