Economy
San Francisco Girds for Blow of Office Workers Never Returning
The tech hub is particularly vulnerable to a long-term shift to remote jobs.
As major U.S. cities recover from the pandemic, San Francisco is getting left behind.
The tech hub, an economic boomtown over the last decade, is struggling with the nation’s weakest office occupancies, stubbornly low transit ridership and one of the country’s slowest recoveries of jobs. White-collar employees embracing remote work have decamped to less pricey areas, raising the question of if they’ll ever come back.