Here's Barry Diller, audio sound bite number 50 in this Fox business channel.

They were Maria Bartcher-Romo.

She got Expedia and digital media group chairman Barry Diller.

What are you seeing in New York Barry? What's your take on recovery post pandemic?

The protesting, the looting that we saw earlier this year in New York City.

We opened our offices actually at Labor Day. We said, please come if you can and truthfully

no one comes. There's so much of the city idle. It is not painful. Drive anywhere, walk anywhere.

And you see local destruction. We've got to get used to the risks and we've got to take some

risks, particularly people who are not vulnerable and get back to full life. Work from home is not

productive. The concept of work from home does not work full stop.

Oh wow. They're not very many people say it this. He's a lone voice. A lot of people,

particularly running corporations that are like Tim Cook says he's ecstatic with the work

Apple employees are doing from home, for example. But here he is. Working from home is not productive.

Full stop. It doesn't work. They open their offices on Labor Day and nobody showed up.

New York ain't coming back. Trump said past couple weeks New York's not coming back.

Not as currently being run. Combination of de Blasio and Cuomo.

But it was I L. Rushbow who offered that opinion months ago. You just hand right in the wall.

You can't. Can't shut down a city like this. And you can't. You can't teach people that hey,

you know, you don't have to live in New York anymore. You don't have to go into the city to work

anymore. You can't teach people that and then expect them to just ignore it.

If people don't have to spend $1200 a month on a closet that they live in for rent, they're not

going to do it. And they have learned that they don't have to do that.

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