Millions more workers have been called back to the office, even at traditionally remote companies such as Zoom and Amazon
These people are adults. You can trust them to do their jobs, and if for some reason you don't want to, there are hundreds of metrics you can track to see if people are getting their work done.
Just let people work where they are happiest.
This article sounds like it was written by a corporate boot licker. They can write whatever nonsense they want. Come Monday I'll be working from a couch with a laptop and maybe clothes.
Narrator Voice: It was, in fact, written by a corporate bootlicker.
Apparently people who own companies and people who own commercial real estate are the same people.
Not to mention all the stuff around it like restaurants bars etc that wouldn't survive without the office workers' money
People love to live around those things. If lower office space is affecting landlords, they could always convert their properties into affordable housing
Yes, but the building codes differ massively between commercial and residential. In most cases the entire building would need to be torn down and rebuilt.
Plus the financial models are very different. Commercial properties like office towers are bought on the basis of their lease values, whereas residential buildings are based off of individual sale values. This can mean commercial property can diminish massively in the face of reduced demand.
The best demonstration is the St Louis AT&T Tower story
Opinion: Dear Entitled Moneyed Class: Time to grow up and face the consequences of your murderous lifelong solipsism
I want to believe this article is satire… At least that’s how I read it.
that seems like a good coping mechanism tbh. i might do that to save my blood pressure.
My god, they seriously wrote that WFH is bad because ... cough cough ... most of the work is done by a select few. They really believe in-office work makes that problem any better? And anyway, if the bosses are relying on performance metrics that are easy to game, of course people will do so, regardless of where they are.
