https://fortune.com/2023/05/25/office-space-crash-harder-than-expected-remote-work-economy-cre-crash/

“The key takeaway from our analysis is that remote work is shaping up to massively disrupt the value of commercial office real estate in the short and medium term,” the authors wrote.

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The authors found that higher quality buildings, a.k.a. buildings with higher rents that were built more recently, “appear to be faring better,” which they claim is consistent with the notion that companies have to improve office quality for workers to want to come back.

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  • join_the_iww [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I know what you’re implying, but then the problem is that in order for the conversions to be economically feasible, a lot of the new apartments would probably have to be windowless.

    • im_smoke [he/him]
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Hear me out, apartments and hallway are arranged on the outside like a rectangular donut. Inside of the donut, space for activities:

      • floor 1: gym with no windows
      • floor 2: art space with no windows
      • floor 3: pool with no windows
      • floor 4: um little library with cozy couches but no windows!
      • floor 5: lil movie theater
      • floor 6: empty space this is the austerity floor :(
      • floor 7: another gym with no windows!

      It can go like that on repeat.