Get ready for the return of the office | Gene Marks

Companies are snapping up office space because despite Covid-induced working from home, bustling cities will be back

A strange thing is happening, thanks to the pandemic. While everyone is stuck working from home, some of the country's largest tech companies are snapping up real estate like nobody's business.

Google, for example, announced just last week that it was investing more than $7bn to open new offices and expand data centers across the country. The tech giant is opening offices and data centers in Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as Portland, Oregon, Houston, Reston, Virginia, and South Haven, Mississippi. It will expand data centers and workspaces in Nevada and Nebraska, Washington state, Detroit, Chicago, Ann Arbor and Austin.