<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Employees have returned to the office at different rates across global centers of commerce, a new report has found. Mark Lennihan/Associated Press</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>RTO mandates and employee preferences are bringing some workers back to the office. </li><li>Many employers continue to worry that RTO policies will result in workers quitting.</li></ul><p>The office isn't dead. Employees have gradually returned to the workplace since COVID-19 restrictions started to ease.</p><p>But the change to <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-wfh-downsides-dads-parenting-childcare-remote-office-2024-9">working from home,</a> sparked by the pandemic, has resulted in a shift to a new kind of familiar — for many, a hybrid of remote and in-office work.</p><p>A new <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.centreforcities.org/blog/hybrid-working-in-global-cities-how-does-londons-return-to-the-office-compare/">report</a> by think tank Centre for Cities examines office attendance for full-time workers in global financial hubs.</p><p>Centre for Cities conducted a survey that targeted around 1,000 workers and 250 decision-makers in city-center offices in London, New York, Paris, Sydney, and Toronto in June 2024. In Singapore, about 400 workers and 100 decision-makers were targeted.</p><p>Here's how each city fared:</p>