Wall Street Sees 61% of Workers Returning to Office by September

Wall Street is getting more optimistic about persuading workers to come back to the office.

Employers in the financial-services industry expect 61% of staff to be back by the end of September, up from 50% in March, according to a survey by the Partnership for New York City. About 14% of finance workers have already made their way back, the second-highest occupancy among industries surveyed, but still well behind real estate at 70%.

Wall Street’s biggest employers have begun to debut plans for cajoling their staff back to the office more than a year after the pandemic …