Wearing Bermuda shorts and flip flops, while blasting Van Halen, Hendrix and Duran Duran is one of the perks of returning to an empty NYC office. It's “the perfect haven when there’s no one there.”
After a long stretch working from home in a one-bedroom apartment shared with her husband and three cats, Cindy Lo was excited to return to the office last month. But the Queens resident wasn’t prepared for the eerie scene that greeted her.
Everyone on the 40-person staff at her Midtown Manhattan office had left on a Thursday afternoon back in March, expecting to return the next day. Four months later, Ms. Lo was the first one back at FitSmallBusiness.com, a digital business platform. There were still mugs with tea bags on the tables, open notebooks in conference rooms, dishes growing fuzz in the kitchen and half-finished art projects from a wine and paint party.
“It was like the Twilight Zone, as if people were in the middle of doing something and got zapped by aliens,” Ms. Lo says. The strangest aspect was the silence. The atmosphere at the open-space office, which occupies the entire 18th floor, was always busy, chatty and friendly. Now, that “happy energy” is gone, says Ms. Lo, the people operations manager for the firm, and was responsible for getting the office ready for others.
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