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\n\n\n\nVisits in New York were only 4 percent below 2019, and in Dallas, 9.8 percent below. At the other end of the spectrum, visits were down 34.4 percent from 2019 in San Francisco, and at the bottom of the pack, 39.4 percent in Denver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nationwide office visits in June 2026 jumped 8.5 percent year-over-year and stood 21 percent below June 2019 levels. But June 2026 also had 21 working days, compared to 20 in both June 2025 and June 2019, and the Juneteenth holiday fell on a Friday this year, rather than a Thursday as in 2025. This means it came on the week\u2019s quietest office day, likely blunting its drag on attendance, Placer.ai posited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The return-to-office numbers in June 2026 highlighted just how close the in-office visitation has gotten to its pre-pandemic baseline, Placer.ai Director of Research Elizabeth Lafontaine told Commercial Property Executive<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cJune was notably strong across many markets for consumers commuting to an office, and visits on the West Coast continue to rise quickly,\u201d Lafontaine said. \u201cIt will be interesting to see how the remainder of the summer plays out against the backdrop of the continued elevation of fuel prices and more RTO mandates coming in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a per-working-day basis, the company reported, office visits nationwide rose a more modest 3.3 percent compared with last year, continuing the slow but steady climb the index has tracked for the past few months. Even when normalizing for business days, June emerged as the single busiest in-office month since the pandemic began in March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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