"The world is going to be different when we come out of quarantine, and our habits and how we use office space will absolutely be different. It really took the lockdown, if you will, to accelerate those trends."

Gavin Fraser, chief executive officer of Small Planet, a small software developer in Brooklyn, in a recent interview with The New York Times for its report, “Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm.” Fraser told the newspaper that about half the firm’s work force is likely to continue working remotely even after the city reopens.