San Francisco’s Sluggish Reopening Frustrates Metropolis’s Small Companies

The San Francisco area has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country, but also one of the lowest readmission rates, a breakup that bodes badly for the future of the city that was the booming hub of the U.S. tech sector before the turnaround pandemic.

As of July 4, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 76% of eligible San Francisco residents had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, compared to 67% in the U.S. as a whole. But the San Francisco area follows the rest of the country back to the office – with less than 20% of the city’s workforce returning in mid-June, compared to a US average of 32%, according to Kastle Systems, a statewide security company that does the Swiping of access cards monitored.

Reduced foot traffic has resulted in many of the shops and restaurants in San Francisco’s once thriving business district being closed. “It’s a ghost town,” said Steve Sarver, owner of the Ladle & Leaf restaurant group, which has only opened one of its eight downtown locations in the city.

A major reason behind the delayed return to normal is because tech companies are proving to be the slowest companies to repopulate office space and the most flexible to allow their employees to work from home after the health crisis ends, companies, brokers say Landlord in the Bay Area.

Companies from other companies in other regions of the US are also employing hybrid strategies that include office and remote work as the country reopens. But the boundaries of the workplace are pushed the furthest by technology companies in the San Francisco area like Salesforce.com Inc., Dropbox Inc., and Google by Alphabet Inc. as they try to target their younger, highly skilled workforce who enjoy working remotely .