This November was a tough month for foot traffic to office buildings. Visits nationwide were 62.4% of November 2019 levels, according to a new Placer.ai analysis. That was down from 66.7% in November 2023 and from 66.0% in October 2024.
An emergency? A secret retrenchment of pandemic closures? An epidemic of front door lock jams? No, blame it all on the turkeys says Placer.ai as Thanksgiving saw record travel according to a Wall Street Journal report. People had better places to go than the office and they did.
The top two metros that led in November office recovery were Miami (visits at 84% of pre-pandemic levels) and New York City (81.9% of pre-pandemic volume). The next few at the top of Placer.ai’s “select cities” were Atlanta (67.5%), Dallas (66.5%), and Washington, D.C. (60.3%).
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