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New York Is Changing In Front Of Our Very Eyes
Things that seemed impossible only 24 months ago are now the new reality
I’m seeing seismic changes in the way this city will exist for the foreseeable future. And I’m excited.
The new New York reality includes the fact that commuting, and all those wasted hours, world resources, traffic jams, train delays, are all for the first time ever, considered as not essential to working for a corporation.
For a city that has been operating in this commuter style way of life for over 100 years, this is dramatic.
If anything this move to remote could have been a very viable scenario over a decade ago, but it took COVID-19 to really become a reality.
It changes the entire ‘office worker’ concept on its head. All those New York scenes we’ve seen in movies of people rushing in mid-town back and forth to their offices — they may become old-fashioned images of a city of yore.
And I applaud this, having worked in offices for over 25 years. I think that the office is in some ways an extension of school, and has the impact of normalizing us to fit in, further than we necessarily want to be.
Yes, the office drone concept has been alive and well. Perhaps less so I the new tech sector…
