At the end of April 2021, the Secretariat of Economic Development of Mexico City summoned private economic agents to the scheduled return of corporate activities, where a maximum capacity of 20% and strict monitoring by companies would be allowed. of the sanitary norms to avoid contagions.

It was estimated that 11,977 private offices will start activities again, with an average of 252 thousand people, while the public sector will continue to carry out its work through the “home office” scheme, with no short-term scheduled return.

Worldwide, we saw cases such as Google that made a statement through its CEO, Sundar Pichai, where in September of this year 60% of its workforce would return to their original headquarters with the possibility of working 3 days in offices, especially to promote meetings that promote creative work.

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Of the remaining Google staff, 20% could select to work from home and another 20% could select some other headquarters or location, all depending on the nature of their tasks and the integration needs of their work teams. In Mexico City, at the Montes Urales headquarters, the company will follow the guidelines dictated worldwide.

An area with a high presence of corporations is the Insurgentes Avenue submarket, which at the end of May 2021 reached 2.27 million square meters of offices, with an availability of 18.1% for rent.

Some of the spaces available here were recently reoccupied, which caused some lines to access and move in elevators at morning entry time, in accordance with established sanitary guidelines.

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Other companies in the financial, technology and manufacturing sectors already implement the pertinent measures and maintain the maximum capacity of 20% of their capacity, with the appropriate furniture and the required signage for a safe performance of their activities.

Currently, the Solili platform reports at the end of May 2021, that the gross demand for corporate space in the Mexican capital registered a slight recovery of 9.9 thousand square meters, despite the fact that the net demand still shows negative figures, which reflects that unemployment still exceeds absorption.

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