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While I haven't seen a formal plan announced, I think there are financial, logistical, social, and political headwinds to it. - Financial: Companies are saving
by caseysoftware 6y ago
While I haven't seen a formal plan announced, I think there are financial, logistical, social, and political headwinds to it.
- Financial: Companies are saving major cash by reducing office space and the associated perks. It's no longer a fight to serve the best meals, have the best designed space, and the greatest views. Further, eliminating business travel increased margins across the board.
- Logistics: Many companies in the Bay Area (especially SF proper), NYC, Boston, Chicago, DC, and other places are highly dependent on mass transit. How many people will want to use it after this?
- Social: Some % of the population has been convinced that anyone can contract and die of covid quickly and easily. All the restaurants, coffee shops, bars, etc, etc around their offices have withered and many have died in the last year. If companies don't feed their people, will they hope everyone brings a lunch?
- Political: The Biden Admin just announced masks are likely necessary into 2022. Further, we're seeing new covid variants/mutations triggering lockdowns all over again.
Any one of those may not be enough but collectively, it will create major resistance to any sort of "in the office" demands.