Technology

I'm fine with that.

Sounds generally positive to me.

Alternative headline: remote work adds billions into workers' pockets and an immeasurable amount of happiness

Convert it to affordable housing. You made a bad investment corporate America, kindly eat shit. If you need us, will be working, from home.

I guess that explains why they're going to such great lengths to convince us that talking about Game of Thrones around a water cooler is such a tremendous benefit to humankind...

Strange way to frame it. It sounds to me like businesses are saving $800 billion in unnessicary expenses.

Who will think of the landlords?

And there it is. This is the reason why so many companies are insisting on RTO. The C-level bosses are being pressured by their ultra rich friends who own the land to justify their high real estate valuations and rent so they can continue to make more money. They're happy to do it too... No compromise for them... Most of them are old conservative fucks that are probably angry at all the technology disconnecting them from their ability to interrupt their workers whenever they feel like it, so they can dump their stress, anger and frustration on their subordinates by reprimanding them without just cause.

It's the same old story, rich folks screwing over the common poors for their own selfish reasons to their own self-serving ends. Progress? No problem, as long as it makes them more money, costs them less in expenses, and gives them more power over the rest of us.

Corporations: get your booty back into the office so it’s not empty
Also corporations: we’ve laid off your team in favor of AI, it was a tough but necessary choice due to costs
The empty office building: ???

Good. Developers can buy them on the cheap and renovate into living spaces

And homelessness is on the rise. Whatever should we do?

I know! Ban homeless encampments! Yeah!

Edit: but first let's fire 15% of our workforce and then give ourselves a few million in bonuses.

Come on you rich idiots, convert those offices into something useful and they'll be valuable again.

It's insane that we as a society are even having the debate between pushing capital investment strategies to adapt and come into the 21st century or dragging globally-distributed workers back to the 20th century just to avoid short-term pain and costs associated with updating outdated laws, tax incentives, and capital business practices.

when my shit gets wiped out its "a market correction". let's see if this is "a market correction" or a "crisis" that requires federal intervention (read: a bunch of your money stolen at gunpoint and given to the people who made bad investments)

Finally something my generation can contribute to

Those poor commercial real estate investors

Oh no! Anyway...

Hence why "they" are against wfh

Oh no!!!

Anyway.

Let it burn!

Awesome, some of my favourite clubs were sold off to be used as offices. Can we turn them back into clubs now?

Sounds more like an overvalued market that’s being corrected.

Sounds like a bunch of Herman Miller chairs are gonna be available for cheap

Maybe we could get them converted to residential units to get cheaper housing.

Good

Yet they still want us in the office...

I work remote twice a week, which is nice, but I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.

Most of who I communicate with to do my job is not even in my location, so I'm regularly using Microsoft teams and WebEx. Also all the programs are accessible on my work laptop from home.

Wonderful

That's all? Let's pump those numbers up...

The estimated total dollar value of commercial real estate was $20.7 trillion as of 2021:Q2.

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The thing I don't like is that so much of the cost cutting goes to companies. It's not just the office space, it's also furniture, electricity, water and so on.

While the worker save time and costs for transportation they usually don't get any compensation for the wear and tear of their furniture or the need for extra space for work area.