September was kind of an "office half-empty" or an "office half-full" situation for many offices, according to Placer.ai's Nationwide Office Building Index.

Over the summer, returns to office (RTO) began to increase on a year-over-year (YoY) basis, with nationwide office visits in August just 35.3% lower than in August 2019 — and the highest they've been since February 2020.

But September saw a renewed widening of the year-over-four-year (Yo4Y) visit gap, to 40.7%, perhaps due in part to the recent rise in COVID cases, according to the report.

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