- June 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The exodus back to the office is underway — though many workers won’t be saying goodbye to their home offices anytime soon.
With COVID restrictions lifting, some Colorado Springs employers have welcomed workers back to their offices in the past few weeks and several others are getting ready to reopen offices this summer, a Gazette survey of some major employers shows.
Many local office-based employers sent the bulk of their workforce home in mid-March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was triggering widespread business closures and soon a statewide stay-at-home order. That left downtown Colorado Springs and many office parks with a much smaller daytime population as a large percentage of office employees worked remotely for the past 15 months.
The Downtown Partnership estimated that remote work reduced the downtown workforce by more than half to about 4,000-6,000 during the worst of the pandemic last spring and again in the…
