They want you to come back for the money. Pack your lunch, no drinks after work, you get in and get out.
"Thousands of PNC workers will return to Downtown later this spring, and the company's Pittsburgh regional head says it could help jumpstart the neighborhood's daytime rebound."
"But we need people to be attracted to Downtown outside of just events and shows. They just need to be here."
"PNC has underwritten $5 million to help Downtown small businesses, Cestello says..."
https://www.axios.com/local/pittsburgh/2026/02/26/pnc-return-downtown-pittsburgh
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Why is the responsibility for the 1-2% raise PNC workers (for the last 5 years, we reluctantly accepted the minimal raise for the availability to work from home) to “make downtown better?” The CEO’s are being blind to it. Downtown is not safe anymore and we shouldn’t have to fix it. The leaders need to realize we just can’t do this. Downtown is far beyond our help and why should our lives and safety be sacrificed? Many of us are living paycheck to paycheck. Please see this PNC!! 5 days is taking 10 steps back! 2-3 days in office can work. 5 is not practical in 2026.
Keeping us hardworking people poorer is not good for the company or surrounding
Communities. Gas prices are rising just in time. Morale is at its all time low since the shallow email announcement. If hybrid would be considered, I think the morale will change. Possibly…
Downtown Pittsburgh will never be the same. Once Macy’s closed, the downfall began because that was the only store that had a very good variety of better clothing and shoes. All we really have is Burlington now. When are the people that run this city going to realize we need to bring more businesses here before we bring more people downtown?
The few restaurants that we have downtown will not get any business from me because I can’t afford to eat at a restaurant every day. I packed my lunch now when I have to go in. I don’t shop at Burlington because the homeless hang outside and there’s a lot of homeless on the streets and I just don’t feel safe walking there. Last week on my way to the building I work in, I saw a man in broad daylight, taking a sh-t against a building on liberty Avenue near Wood street. It’s absolutely disgraceful what downtown has become. It would take over another 20 years to get it back to what it was and that’s only if they start bringing in stores to shop. If they continue to just build housing, the city will never recover.
This will not bring traffic to downtown like they want you to believe. Once again PNC presidents and executives are getting too ho--y about this RTO and daydreaming of a booming and bustling workplace. It ain't gonna happen! Pittsburgh is a shithole! No matter how you look at it, it is following the path of Detroit. Crime...over-priced parking (if you can find it)...homelessness...$35 daily lunches...crime...open air dr-g use...unreliable public transportation...did I mention crime. These executives don't have to deal with any of that. They get a reserved a parking spot. Lunch is usually written off. They haven't ridden the bus in ages. They are so far out of touch. But hey at least they can provide a 1.25% raise and require you to come in 5 days. What in the actual f**k is this place becoming.