New York City office workers expect to return to the office sometime this year. The most recent office survey conducted by the Partnership for New York City has found that 62% of office workers expect to be back in the office by Labor Day. In March, only 45% of workers that had the same expectation. This shows the rapid pace of the recovery, due largely to vaccinations.

While employees will return to the office, the work day will look much different than is did prior to the pandemic. The survey found that 71% off offices will implement a hybrid work model with a combination of in office and at-home work models, while only 25% of companies will require a return to the office. Only 4% of respondents said that returning to the office in some capacity was not required—good news for the office industry.

Financial services companies are leading the back-to-work trend with 61% of employers calling employees back-to-work by September. Tech companies, on the other hand, are slower to ask employees back. Only 40% of tech companies plan to have employees back in the office by September. The latter is actually a decrease from the previous survey when 51% of tech companies claimed to have office re-open by Labor Day.