Almost half of Melbourne’s workforce has a job that’s based in the CBD, but only one in eight now head to the city every day of the working week | carawaters CBD WFH
A survey by RMIT of more than 2,000 Melbourne residents found 49.5 per cent reported their primary workplace as the CBD.
Dr Alexia Maddox from RMIT authored the report which found just 12.5 per cent of Melbourne residents worked full time in the CBD in a typical week.The report was based on a survey of more than 2000 residents across greater Melbourne in April, and of those surveyed 45.9 per cent reported their primary workplace as the CBD but just 12.5 per cent said they worked full-time in the CBD in a typical week.
Maddox said the research showed Melbourne residents had a preference for being able to choose whether to work from home or the office and the purpose of the city had to evolve.“People definitely see their local suburb as the centre of what they would previously go to the city for,” she said.“It is changing what the role of the city is – it is a political seat, a place where businesses are visible and for people to come and mix. We have to think of the city as an experiential space.
The most recent foot traffic data from the City of Melbourne recorded a week-day average of pedestrian activity near the Town Hall sensor at 77.2 per cent of the pre-COVID benchmark. “While flexible working is here to stay, the collaborative synergy generated by teams being in the office a few days a week is undeniable,” she said. “Property owners are looking to leverage the very technology that makes remote work possible as a drawcard for the office space they’re offering the market.”
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