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North Dakota government s largest leased office space largely vacant as employees opt for remote work
North Dakota taxpayers will have to foot the bill for close to $3 million for the North Dakota Information Technology Department s 85,000-square-foot north Bismarck office building over the next two years. Written By: Adam Willis | ×
The North Dakota Information Technology Department rents an 85,000-square-foot office building in north Bismarck. Adam Willis / The Forum
BISMARCK The largest privately-owned office space leased by the North Dakota state government has been mostly vacant over the last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and could stay that way as the department housed in the building has allowed its employees the indefinite option to work remotely.
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May 13, 2021 | 5:44 PM
BISMARCK – North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $3 million in rent over the next two years for unused office space for a state agency that intends to allow most of its more than 400 employees to work from home indefinitely.
The North Dakota Information Technology Department’s 85,000-square-foot leased space in a newly remodeled, privately owned office building in north Bismarck is unoccupied, except for about a dozen employees, said Greg Hoffman, the agency’s director of administration.
It is the largest and most expensive leased office space in the state, North Dakota Capitol Facilities Manager John Boyle said.
Review of leases requested after report of unused building
By JAMES MacPHERSONMay 14, 2021 GMT
The North Dakota Information Technology Department building is shown on Normandy Street, Thursday, May 13, 2021, in north Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $3 million in rent over the next two years in unused office space for a state agency that intends to allow most of its more than 400 employees to continue to work from home indefinitely. Officials say the North Dakota IDT’s 85,000-square-foot leased space in a newly remodeled privately owned office building in north Bismarck is unoccupied, except for about a dozen employees. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
ND Paying $1.5 Million A Year For Mostly Empty Building.
The North Dakota Information Technology Department building in north Bismarck is the newly remodeled 85,000 square foot home to some of the best tech minds in the state. Or at least it once was, it seems that
home is now actually home to a large majority of it s more than 400 employees. The pandemic scattered much of the world s workforce out of their conventional workplace. Slowly, most employees returned to work.
Bruce Springsteen famously sang in Hungry Heart , one of his first big hits, I went out for a ride and I never went back