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Bloomberg News: Manhattan workers are spending at least $12.4 billion less on meals, shopping, entertainment and more per year because they spend 30% less of their time in the office. The shift to remote work is the biggest change to urban life since cities went from being organized around factories to being organized around offices. To thrive in this new era, America's cities need to embrace new ideas about who and what is at the center of urban life.

Pandemic restrictions are mostly over, but cities are still struggling to recover. Empty offices threaten to set off a downward spiral of falling tax revenue and declining services. Today, Explained’s Miles Bryan tries to stop the doom loop before it starts.

This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan with help from Amanda Lewellyn. It was edited by Matt Collette with help from Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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