so, joining us to talk more about this is jim wonderman, the ceo for bay area council. thank you for joining us. >> pleasure. >> first off, we need to share with everyone what the bay area council does. can you elaborate? >> yeah. the bay area council is a regionwide association of major employers who ■workon the sustainability, quality of life and the economy of the region. we work on issues like housing and transportation and education to make sure that we have a strong economy going forward and the place functions and there's 101 cities and 9 counties in the bay area surrounding a bay. they don't all always work together so well, so we're the group that created b.a.r.t. way back in the 1950s to try to create a web and a true regional perspective that is really important for a lot of issues where these sort of artificial boundaries don't actually work very well in practice. >> i feel like what your organization does is so crucial during this time of the pandemic, and you recently did a poll of 350 employers last month. 51% of respondents consider working at the office