Poll reveals challenges for D.C. with ongoing remote work demand.

A Washington Post-Schar School poll finds that a large majority of people in the Washington D.C. region with remote-capable jobs say they would prefer to mostly work from home if offered the choice. Anxiety related to whether office occupancy rates will return to pre-pandemic levels has been acute in the District, where 58 percent of remote-capable workers say they prefer to work from home most or all of the time. The city’s chief financial officer has revised the city’s projected revenue downward by a total of nearly $500 million between fiscal 2024 and 2026, telling top city leaders that remote work posed a “serious long-term risk to the District’s economy and tax base.”