The Group Portrait: Champions of the Office

Ten New York bosses urging workers back to their desks.

- Jen Wieczner

FOR THE PAST COUPLE of years, the corporate members of the Partnership for New York City have been fond of paraphrasing Mark Twain in stating that reports of the metropolis's demise, as measured by vacant storefronts and empty office buildings, are greatly exaggerated. Now, as masks in the city have largely come off indoors and out, the executives in the organization are trying to broadcast another message: It's high time New Yorkers go back to work in person.