What Will Happen to Government Buildings After the Pandemic?

What Will Happen to Government Buildings After the Pandemic?
COVID-19 proved even to skeptics that a lot of government business can be done from anywhere. So what happens to all the physical spaces that cities and states invested in to house their workforce?
June 6, 2021 • 
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Many state and local CIOs are coming to the realization that the sudden shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic in March 2020 could become a permanent aspect of 21st-century life, with wide-ranging implications.
When she sent her 120 full-time employees home in March 2020, Annette Dunn, CIO for the state of Iowa, had a feeling of déjà vu. Just the year before, her entire IT team was forced to work remotely when their Des Moines office building was flooded. In January 2021, the Office of the CIO took over the lease of another state agency for two floors in a privately owned commercial office building that Dunn said was an upgrade over the state-owned building that had been flooded.

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