In the first half of this episode, we sit down with Yvonne Knutson (Office of Financial Management) and Maurice Perigo (Department of Enterprise Services) to talk about how state offices are contracting all around Olympia and our region. Second, we visit with official Friend of the Podcast Mike Reid to go over how these office contractions will impact Olympia going into the future.

Here is some additional reading:

The Washington Standard (hey nice name, where’d you find it?): State looks to dump leased real estate as remote work leaves offices empty

The Olympia Subreddit discussion on the above article

Senate State Government & Elections work session on post COVID-19 office space needs (March 2023)