A lot of the cities on this list are liberal/progressive hellholes where the areas the office's are in are no longer safe and most of the stores and restaurants have closed due to crime/drugs/homeless/etc. Even without considering that, no one wants to RTO for the most part. Maybe a few really enjoy the "forced socialization" with their co-workers because they have no personality or friends outside of work but I am not one of them. Archive: https://archive.today/GzHsn From the post: >>More and more Americans are returning to offices as the pandemic-fueled work-from-home trend continues to cool - but employees in a handful of cities are lagging behind. The Placer.ai Office Index measures the amount of foot traffic in and out of 1,000 office buildings across America, providing a strong indication of which cities have bounced back. It found that workers in two West Coast cities - San Francisco and Los Angeles - have been much slower to return to offices compared to East Coast cities like Miami and New York.