72% of office workers have left Manhattan

The Democrats destroyed the greatest city in the world. To all those who say, it will be back. I say How? Why? Based on what?

72% of office workers left Manhattan

For a year and a half, New York City’s communist mayor and the state’s dumber-than-Fredo governor used covid to shove people around. They closed restaurants and forced people to wear masks. Crime rose as the Red Mayor promoted BLM lawlessness. And the Dumb Guv spread covid into nursing homes and killed 15,000 grannies.

That’s right. 1 in 20 (5%) of the covid deaths last year were due to Andrew Cuomo’s order that nursing homes take in covid patients.

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The press hailed him as a hero.But there’s a new governor and in a couple of months Gotham will have a new mayor. But the damage has been done. Employers have discovered Zoom. What was temporary is now permanent.

Kathryn Wylde, who heads Partnership for New York City, told WABC, “Of Manhattan’s 1 million office workers, 28% are back. And of those, only 8% are back full time.”

That means 72% of those jobs are gone for now. The survey showed 43% of the jobs are gone permanently.

That’s 720,000 people aren’t buying coffee in the morning and lunch in the afternoon. The covid rules hit bars and restaurants. Politicians thought it was temporary. Nope. They’re gone, victims of Democrat policies that failed to stop the spread of covid or even flatten the curve.

The WABC story said, “Governor Kathy Hochul is urging New York City employers to bring their workers back now, after a new survey showed the majority of people are still working remotely.”

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The story said, “When employers were asked to rank factors to which they attribute the slow return to the office, the status of COVID ranked as the largest factor, with 48% citing it as the primary concern.

“Hochul says short of banning Zoom, which she says she won’t do, people need to get back to work.”

When a Democrat promises she won’t do something, bet on her doing it eventually.

There is some hope in that survey as that 28% showing up for work at least three days a week is expected to rise to 57% by the end of January.

While 48% of the employers said this was driven by covid, NYC and the state pose other problems.

Crime rose during the communist reign of Mayor De Blasio. The Knockout Game has the young randomly striking people in their 40s and older.

Taxes and rents also are a problem.

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And the new governor is a Karen.

AP reported last month, “Workers facing layoffs in New York state now have a right to ask their employers instead to trim all workers’ hours and have unemployment insurance help offset the losses for everyone, under a law that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Saturday.”

If the work can be done with Zoom, why stay in a New York where companies are subjected to the whims of anti-capitalist legislators and governors?

Rent a post box in Poca, get a business license, and Zoom to your heart’s content.