Here's Barry Diller audio SoundBite number fifty Fox Business channels. There were Maria Bartcher Romo, You've got Expedia and Digital Media Group chairman, Barry Diller. What are you seeing in New York? Barry? What's your take on recovery post pandemic, the protesting, the looting that we saw earlier this year in New York City. We opened our offices actually in Labor Day. We said please come if you can, and truthfully, no one comes. There's so much of the city idol.
It is not faiable drive anywhere, walk anywhere, and you see local destruction. We've got to get used to the risks, and we've got to take some risks, particularly people who are not vulnerable, and get back to full light. Work from home is not productive. The concept of work from home does not work full stop. Oh wow, is not. They're not very many people saying this. He's a he's
a lone voice. A lot of people, particularly running corporations that are like Tim Cook says he's ecstatic with the work Apple employees are doing from home, for example, But here he is. Working from home is not productive, full stop, It doesn't work. They opened their offices on Labor Day and nobody showed up. New York ain't coming back, Trump said past couple of weeks. New York's not coming back, not as currently being run combination of the Blasio and Cuomo.
But it was I. L. Rushbow who offered that opinion months ago. You just handwritings on the wall. You can't can't shut down a city like this m and you can't you can't teach people that, hey, you know, you don't have to live in New York anymore. You don't have to go into the city to work anymore. And you can't teach people that and then expect them to just ignore it. If people don't have to spend twelve hundred dollars a month on a closet that they live
in for rent, they're not going to do it. And they have learned that they don't have to do that.