D.C.’s reopening and reoccupancy has begun, tenants adapt to new conditions
After spending months in an unprecedented government-mandated shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C. has begun a phased economic and business reopening, and a return to offices that have long sat vacant. Those organizations that are returning to a shared physical workplace are certainly operating under much different circumstances with employee safety and virus control the top priorities. Companies that need to make upcoming real estate decisions will find it challenging to make long-term projections on workforce, capital and space needs, given uncertainty about the long-term trend for remote working, whether restrictive health guidelines are short- or long-term phenomena, and the interdependence of both factors