单选题：根据以下材料，回答题A. Emptying city centres of a quarter of their off

根据以下材料，回答题
A. Emptying city centres of a quarter of their office workers would be commercially devastating.It would wipe out the profit margins of the shops, cafes and pubs that depend on them. Rents would plunge on newly emergent office blocks, lacking as they do the adaptability of the old Victorian streets they replace. towers will damage to wnscapes as corporate dinosaurs.
B．Commuting has come to be seen as an unnecessary health hazard.A worker visiting his or her office will be like going shopping, an occasional discretionary activity.Yes, we will value the human contact with workplace friends, clients and associates, but not 9-to-5, five days a week.This treadmill was the ethos of Dickens factory work carried into the office.It
is out of date.
C．clearly the idea of corporate space, of the company building, is in crisis.As for office work, the future lies with small towns and suburban villages. It lies in places commuter: call home, where they canreplace the ties of office with those of neighbourhood.The shift may be no more than 25%, but indemography a trend is a revolution.
D．just as once the farm gave way to the factory and the factory to the desk, so Technolog transforms the nature of work. At the turn of the 21st century the digital revolution shrank offices to tiny screens.From then on offices have lived on borrowed time.Coronavirus has called their bluff.Anew Morgan Stanley survey shows that even now only 34% of British office workers have gone back to work.offices stand vacant, shops, pubs and cafesclosed and even boarded up.Across Britain there must be many people wonderingif they really wanl to fight their way to a city office block when their home can be their office.
E．N ~ne the less, office workers seem certain to vote with their feet.As a Birmingham lawyer told the Guardian, "There is absolutely no reason for us to be in this office Every dayl can do my perfectly well from anywhere." Howdrastic the impact on city business districts will be is uncertain.Those in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds have been planned for decades on an assumption of rising office demand.The LSE cities expert Professor tony Travers says that for them, "It's like death, too frightening to predict.But a conservative guess might be that half of workers opt for some form of remote working, perhaps for half their time." That is a roughly 25 % cut in traditional office occupancy.
F．This need not be bad news for cities.The decline in offices will leave more space for housing.Cultural and leisure activities will recover. Historic quarters-]f conserved--will attract the creative industries that are seen as holding the key to modern city economies, industries that thrive on urban concentration.It is intriguing that Angus Thirlwell of theHotel Chocolat chain bewailing to the BBC the fate of his big city outlets,while praising his successes in Cheltenham, St Albans, Stamford and Harrogate.These are the new work hubs.
G．The media is full of studies declaring that offices are good for us after all.They promote social diversity and informal contacts, offering relief from relationship claustrophobia in "getting out of the house".Management ideology has long identified "the company" with its headquarters, its physical presence and hierarchy. The New Scientist reports the boss of Microsoft worrying that unmonitored home working will eat into the "social capital" built up in an office environment.
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