Capitalizing the word data, while providing none, does not buttress your wild claims. By contrast, I already posted the actual ridership data for the TTC.
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Only 9% of Canadians reporting a hybrid working arrangement in October:
Just under 16% report working entirely remotely.
Those numbers may or may not overlap
Edited, as per
@Undead 's reading of the info. Any which way, 'most of us' are not working remotely. The published remote stat for May '21 was 20%, which makes me think its likely in the 16% range today, inclusive, but TBD.
Employment rose by 108,000 (+0.6%) in October, recouping losses observed from May to September. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.2% in October.
www150.statcan.gc.ca
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The Federal government has mandated that its employees will return to the office between 40-60% of the time (for those who could and were working remotely)
Starting next year, Canadians working for the federal public service will have to spend at least two or three days per week in the office, Treasury Board president Mona Fortier announced Thursday. Fortier said that the new “hybrid work model,” will ensure employees return to the office for...
www.itworldcanada.com
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The banks are doing the same.
I just like to bold
DATA because I know we love data, not anecdotes here, so I just wanted to make sure we all saw it.
But that's annoying. Anyways, I wouldn't use federalized or national data as we'd be averaging out places where WFH would never work, like the oil sands. That's not our concern.
In Toronto, we are specifically talking about service and knowledge workers, which we know make-up a significant part of our city's economy (this is the City's own data btw). You'll see here:
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/mortgages/working-from-home-housing-office-space, that in urban centres, WFH is up to 44% in Ottawa and 35% in Toronto.
Also, the banks aren't as strict as you think. RBC - who is one of the most aggressive - is up to 3-days a week for non-CFO staff and anyone who works in Southcore knows that that still isn't being enforced. Telecom is following soon, we think. Rogers is rumouring 2-days a week for all staff and 4-days for Directors+. But most people just won't show up as they know there is nothing management can do about it as even management doesn't want to come back. As for the tech sector, forget it - they're trying to make all work async.
It's clear from lagging indicators, like decreased foot traffic to abandoned leases to WFH stats to TTC's and GO's own ridership numbers and from leading indicators, like growing employee demands for flex work, to new work philosophies to WFH visa's in other countries that Toronto will have a hard time maintaining the economies of scale needed for their infrastructure to be maintained. This includes transit, which we already see from this budget, is suffering already from this disruption.
I'm actually not even sure what you're defending or arguing against at this point. But again, my original question, was how the TTC should change its investment strategy given the shifts that have occurred. Oh wait, we seem to be trying to deny any disruption is occurring - I remember now.
In my opinion, the TTC isn't going to be able to patchwork service improvements here and there to get out of this one. The TTC was built for commuting, not for leisure or running quick errands as minimum travel time is 30 mins even to go a few blocks. Perhaps more localized bus routes will help match emerging usage patterns, but I'm not sure that'd even work.
Maybe this belongs in the Disruption of Transportation thread, which was mostly about Elon Musk and his useless tunnels, but I think the disruption is here already in the form of WFH and impacting all services.
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