Survey Results
Union Survey Results
The Union conducted a survey measuring the impacts of the office relocation on its employees. Given that our sources state a Jersey City location is highly favorable, we looked at the impacts on the New York District and North Atlantic Division workforce should our offices co-locate to a place in Jersey City near a PATH station (assumed Journal Square). As of 5/20/2026, 136 people responded to the survey; we left some survey responses out due to them giving incomplete survey answers or some outliers who live and work too far away from New York City. We particularly looked at each survey response's current commute, what their preferred office location would be, and whether they would quit if their commute worsened as a result of this move. The results showed that while those based in New York and Connecticut would leave at a greater rate, there would be high attrition from those based in New Jersey as well. When the Union reached out to New Jersey workers, we found out the reasons to be as follows:
See the survey results in this spreadsheet document on our Google Drive: [XLSX]. What we found was this:
Workers who currently drive to Fort Hamilton benefit the most from this move as mileage, tolls, and other car maintenance costs are currently more expensive than transit options that would be available to them after relocating to an office location along the PATH. However, anyone who currently takes transit from locations in New York and Connecticut will suffer fare increases of over $100 a month and/or an increase in commute time of 40 hours a month (based on 20-day a month calculations).
The Union conducted a survey measuring the impacts of the office relocation on its employees. Given that our sources state a Jersey City location is highly favorable, we looked at the impacts on the New York District and North Atlantic Division workforce should our offices co-locate to a place in Jersey City near a PATH station (assumed Journal Square). As of 5/20/2026, 136 people responded to the survey; we left some survey responses out due to them giving incomplete survey answers or some outliers who live and work too far away from New York City. We particularly looked at each survey response's current commute, what their preferred office location would be, and whether they would quit if their commute worsened as a result of this move. The results showed that while those based in New York and Connecticut would leave at a greater rate, there would be high attrition from those based in New Jersey as well. When the Union reached out to New Jersey workers, we found out the reasons to be as follows:
- Hudson County, NJ is not a convenient location for a lot of New Jersey commuters either. Those who take the bus would likely have to transfer at Port Authority in New York City to another bus that would take them back into Hudson County. Those who take the New Jersey Transit Rail find the transfer from Penn Station to the PATH Herald Square station more inconvenient than the transfer within Penn Station to the subway. Furthermore, not all PATH stops are easily accessible. Some require more transfers than people would like.
- Those who would drive find it inconvenient since parking fees and mileage are not covered under the commuter benefit program like transit fares are.
- With a significant portion of the workforce leaving, New Jersey workers also see the workload being forced onto them, distracting them from their current work and making them spend time and money traveling to out-of-state sites that would be more efficiently handled by workers native to those locales.
See the survey results in this spreadsheet document on our Google Drive: [XLSX]. What we found was this:
- 33% of people (1 of 3 survey answers) based in PA said they would quit.
- 39% of people (17 of 30 survey answers) based in NJ said they would quit.
- 100% of people (2 of 2 survey answers) based in CT said they would quit.
- 45% of people (35 of 77 survey answers) based in NY said they would quit.
- 54% of people (7 of 13 survey answers) based in Manhattan said they would quit.
- 0% of people (0 of 2 survey answers) based in Bronx said they would quit.
- 69% of people (9 of 13 survey answers) based in Queens said they would quit.
- 32% of people (7 of 22 survey answers) based in Brooklyn said they would quit.
- 33% of people (1 of 3 survey answers) based in Staten Island said they would quit.
- 0% of people (0 of 7 survey answers) based in Hudson Valley said they would quit.
- 58% of people (7 of 12 survey answers) based in Nassau County said they would quit.
- 80% of people (4 of 5 survey answers) based in Suffolk County said they would quit.
Workers who currently drive to Fort Hamilton benefit the most from this move as mileage, tolls, and other car maintenance costs are currently more expensive than transit options that would be available to them after relocating to an office location along the PATH. However, anyone who currently takes transit from locations in New York and Connecticut will suffer fare increases of over $100 a month and/or an increase in commute time of 40 hours a month (based on 20-day a month calculations).
