A December, 2022, report found Torontonians endured the 3rd-longest commute times in North America, after New York and Chicago.
on the transit system, some of which resulted in deaths of commuters. The safety issue came on the heels of the TTC’s admission earlier this year that passengers should expect longer wait times and service cuts in light of continuing budget shortfalls as COVID-19 eases.
“We are hearing from our downtown employers that their work force wants to come back into the downtown core, but if it’s taking them an hour and a half one way to get in even just from suburbs around the city, it is simply not worth their time,” said Janet De Silva, president of the Toronto Region Board of Trade. She said the board recently set up an internal committee to study congestion, various traffic “pain points” around the city and to derive solutions.
“The biggest thing that’s holding people back, honestly, especially in Toronto, is traffic. It’s brutal,” he told The Globe and Mail in a recent interview. Mr. Strain does not believe low attendance and the company’s hybrid work model has hurt the company, but he would like to see attendance increase to roughly 30 per cent.
The Scarborough location is 6,000 square feet and has 64 workstations, in addition to board rooms and meeting rooms. The Mississauga location is approximately half that size. Both have free parking and on-site food options. There is some evidence that hybrid work has become normal in much of Toronto’s downtown core. Data from the Strategic Regional Research Alliance, a Toronto-based analytics company, show that as of Jan. 15 this year, office occupancy of employees in downtown Toronto was 42 per cent of prepandemic levels. The most popular office day is Wednesdays, when office occupancy averages at 57 per cent.
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