CBD businesses would be given a lifeline if more workers came back to the office, NAB boss Ross McEwan says.
Businesses have called for state governments to reverse their “stay home” messaging to encourage workers back to desolate central business districts, with March 1 emerging as the target return date for some of the country’s biggest companies.
“We are increasingly hearing calls from our customer base that people will be returning over the coming weeks. It’s critical to small business people that we get the cities moving.” “We need super clear rules and we need to work out how we’re going to get people back in, taking into account questions about what is the safe office environment, what are the rules?” Ms Westacott said.
“We’re just going to have to find ways...to have more people - more activity - in the central business districts [and] to bring people back. If you do go for a walk around, there’s not a lot of people at the moment, around.” NAB and Australia New Zealand Banking Group, both big Melbourne-based banks, currently have around 3 per cent of workers coming in to the office in Melbourne. But Mr McEwan said people were safer in the office than they are at sporting events.“I’m in the office and there would probably be about two people per massive floor. You’d be safer in here than you would be certainly at a nightclub or certainly going to the tennis or the AFL. You’d be safer in the workplace.
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