> When I look at the WFH shift, I struggle to rationalize how companies wouldn’t rather utilize flex space as needed for group huddles than commit to long term

> When I look at the WFH shift, I struggle to rationalize how companies wouldn’t rather utilize flex space as needed for group huddles than commit to long term leases. It still requires that everyone be in the same city more or less. Basically only applies to companies that had an office and now don't want one, and even then only for a while. Once you're working fully remote anyway you're giving up one of its major advantages (geographically unconstrained hiring pool) by keeping to one city like that. If you find meeting in person to be advantageous enough to justify that, you probably should capitalize on it and just have an office. It's one of those things that sounds good on paper, and kinda was good during some periods of the pandemic. But it's a compromised middle ground that realizes none of the advantages of committing to either approach.