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This is a weird article. It assumes that this style is bad up front, then mocks all the different ways in which it was defined as good. "People like green space
by trjordan 10y ago
This is a weird article. It assumes that this style is bad up front, then mocks all the different ways in which it was defined as good. "People like green spaces, how crazy is that?"
I like cities, but I also really enjoyed the couple of times I've worked at parks like this. There's a lot to be said for a predictable commute and a window full of green things. I've found that harder to come by when I work in cities.
- narrator 10y agoYeah, it's seems like the author has a solution looking for a problem. These companies have plenty of money. If their employees didn't like these suburban campuses they would move to cities.
- kristopolous 10y agoOr perhaps the best catches would never walk in for the interview because they find it a synthetic asphyxiating saccharine fabrication, centered around an automobile and isolation. The best people out there can make money literally from anywhere, why the heck would they go to some compound of industrialized personalization like that?
- refurb 10y agoThis may come as a shock, but there are people out there that like things you don't like!
- kristopolous 10y agoThe OP had a fairly significant self selection bias. The notion that the current employees would want to move to the cities using that argument could be replaced with anything. "Night shifts" or "working in the nude"; they accepted the job under these conditions. The preference is baked into the premise
- WWKong 10y agoOr perhaps some of the best people actually like living and working in the suburbs? Maybe their lifestyle and situations are different from yours?
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- yellowapple 10y agoI don't know if I'm one of those "best catches" (I strongly doubt it), but I do know that I'd rather work in a place that pretends to be open and relaxing and full of life and fresh air than one that doesn't even try to pretend to be any of those things. Of course, I'd much rather life and work in the real thing, which is the literal opposite of what the article proposes, so there's that.
- hueving 10y agoPretty sad that you think only the best people like what you like.
- kristopolous 10y agoThe implication was in the negotiation. The best people I know can swing a full salary coming in one half of one day a week. If you think people who only need to work 4 hours a week would waste their time in the overhead inherent in the structure of a corporate office park then you don't know people who value their time
- emodendroket 10y agoIt's a pretty common career arc for people to start working in the city, move out to the suburbs, and then eventually want to find a job in the suburbs to have an easier commute.
- supersaiyanverx 10y agoI can't wait for this bubble to pop so people like you get the reality check they deserve. (Hint: you're not special)
- kristopolous 10y agoNot to you I'm not. What's your point? That demand shocks have supply responses?
- bbcbasic 10y ago> The best people out there can make money literally from anywhere Since an office can only be in one place and therefore satisfy one subset of 'the best people's preferences - remote working is the logical conclusion for getting the best people who are also fussy about location.
- emodendroket 10y agoWell, maybe, but maybe the best catches don't want to work in the city center.
- st3v3r 10y agoI don't know how much stock I'd put in that statement. If management wants to do it, they're gonna do it, despite what the employees say.