Part 1: Return to the Office Series - Predicting the Return to the Office

EUROPE

CURRENT STATE WHO’S CURRENTLY AT THE OFFICE?

Office occupancy has varied across key cities in Europe throughout 2021, the result of two primary factors. One, rules set by national governments and two, the guidance and expectations of individual businesses. Across the EU, the UK, and most other parts of Europe—Sweden being an exception—the approach was to mandate people work from home unless they provided critical services. Through much of 2020, people were not ‘allowed’ to go to the office in many capital and major cities. Since then, employee in- office attendance has tracked closely with the level of COVID-19 infections. Once the rules relaxed across Europe—albeit at different times for various countries—the number of people spending time in the office increased.

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